SERBIA TIGHTENS MONEY LAUNDERING CONTROLS ON PAPER – BUT CASH ECONOMY STILL POSES PROBLEMS
January 1st, 2007
BY ALAN OSBORNAN odd fact about Serbia today is that hardly anybody in the country seems curious about the way its official government financial figures don't remotely add up. The authors of a US-sponsored report for the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) published last October - 'Money Laundering and Predicate Crime in Serbia 2000-2005' - acknowledge the conventional shortages of staff and computers but say they "hit on a more fundamental void: lack of curiosity." They say that if households spend more than they earn and save for ...
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