Lawyers, notaries, accountants and auditors “are playing a central role in enabling money laundering across the Western Balkans” by exploiting weak implementation of anti–money laundering rules, warns a new report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), published on Thursday. The report, “Licence to Launder: Professional Money Laundering Enablers in the Western Balkans”, finds that although anti-money laundering frameworks are broadly aligned with EU standards, enforcement remains weak due to fragmented supervision and inconsistent reporting. The report covers Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia, and is based on 89 interviews as well as legal and risk-analysis data. The report claims that across the region, designated non-financial businesses and professions function as “professional enablers” who “at times deliberately construct a veneer of legitimacy by authenticating transactions without proper due diligence”.
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