On Wednesday 8 July the European Parliament will discuss the Commission’s Action Plan on how to “fight effectively against money laundering and terrorist financing” and will vote on a resolution on Friday 10 July.

It is very worrying that on one hand Europe promotes data protection and privacy and that on the other hand they bring about a surveillance society by the anti money laundering (AML) and anti terrorist financing (CFT) legislation, read this and other posts on this blog.

More information:

[a] Newsitem European Parliament of 2 July 2020

[b] Commission Action Plan for a comprehensive Union policy on preventing money laundering and terrorist financing

Read my article Is a disaster necessary to stop the European AML-CFT tanker? | Action Plan AML-CFT

[c] EP Study: Improving anti-money laundering policy (14/05/2020) by Ms. Unger

Read my article Unger report for ECON | blacklisting of countries, data analytics against crime (letterboxes) and AMLR | AML, CFT; it’s not a good report.

[d] Procedure file Action Plan

[e] Draft 1 and draft 2 for a resolation on AML/CFT