April 4 2018
The outgoing Europol director, Rob Wainwright, says that Europe’s work to curb money laundering is insufficient as illegal cash moves too easily through its banking system.
“Professional money launderers—and we have identified 400 at the top, top level in Europe—are running billions of illegal drug and other criminal profits through the banking system with a 99 percent success rate,” Wainwright said in an interview with Politico.