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TIRANA, Nov. 27 – A Council of Europe monitoring body has placed Albania into enhanced follow-up following poor progress in tackling money laundering and terrorism financing, in a rating that has renewed accusations by the main opposition Democratic Party against the ruling Socialists. Moneyval, the Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism, a monitoring body of the Council of Europe, says it has placed Albania into enhanced follow-up, a rating assigned to countries with serious incompliance with standards and which have taken no satisfactory action to exit regular follow-up within five years…