Gaddafi allegedly worked for years with Swiss banks to launder international banking transactions.

Thus all economic offences likely to be used to launder money are increasingly becoming a subject of concern to the Government of Benin.

States in which it is a criminal offence to launder the proceeds of drug trafficking, by region (those responding in both the second and the third reporting period)

Regarding money laundering, the law is silent on criminalization although under national drug laws, it is considered an offence to launder drug money and (a uniform law on money laundering is currently being drafted).

Indeed, by using the West to launder their dirty money, Putin and his cohorts have, in a way, avenged the Soviet Union s collapse by undermining the West s principles and discrediting liberal democracy in the eyes of the Russian population.

El País reports that the bill would, leave the sale of marijuana to the State as a way to 'launder' the drug market, removing a significant profit margin from drug traffickers and 'moving' cocaine paste addicts to a softer drug.