What lessons does the UK shift in focus from ‘money laundering’ to ‘illicit finance’ hold for Australia?

As found in one of the studies in today’s Crime Research Update

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From money laundering to illicit finance? The evolving ‘AML’ regulatory regimes for legal professionals in the UK and Australia

Journal: Current Issues in Criminal Justice
Keywords: illicit, laundering, criminal justice
First author: Katie Benson (Department of Criminology, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK)

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