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TIRANA, Dec. 18 – Criminal proceeds deriving from trafficking of narcotics, crimes in the customs and tax areas such as smuggling and tax evasion as well as corruption are the main threats of money laundering in Albania, according to a Council of Europe monitoring body. The finding come in a detailed CoE report after 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, recently placed Albania into enhanced follow-up, a rating assigned to countries with serious incompliance with standards and which have taken no…