By Dan Byrne for AMLi
Tracking the dirty profits of the cocaine trade is absolutely essential if the EU is to launch any meaningful defence against the growing industry, Europol has suggested.
With the release of its new Cocaine Insights Report – produced in conjunction with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) – the EU’s policing agency has stressed that money laundering investigations are the heart of the fight against the lucrative trade.