European Union serious and organised crime threat assessment
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European Union serious and organised crime threat assessment
The report notes that ‘Complicit legal and financial advisors as well as lawyers and notaries provide information to criminals on police records and criminal proceedings and assist in setting up fraud schemes and networks of companies to acquire and launder money… More than 80 % of the criminal networks active in the EU use legal business structures for their criminal activities’.
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