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LATEST: FATF warns of rise in professional ‘money laundering as a service’

By PAUL O’DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent

UNDERGROUND banking and hawala networks are becoming increasingly professionalised, helping drive the rise of “money laundering as a service”, according to a new report from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

More than 80% of reporting jurisdictions identified these systems among the principal money laundering channels or techniques used by professional launderers, FATF said.

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