Enforcement operations have proven we can disrupt cartel operations. But these organizations are resilient and recover quickly. We need to develop more effective strategies for disruption in order to achieve the destabilization of criminal organizations. Pursuing A Continuously Evolving Strategy. But the traffickers have changed tactics and moved to new locales.
Banks are but one portal.
They also use securities brokers, insurance companies, import and export companies. Every means the worlds of business and finance have to offer, linked by wireless and facsimile transmissions, are today used by traffickers and the managers of their illicit proceeds. Financial regulation, supervision and enforcement needs to expand both to cover transactions that transcend national boundaries and to cover the widening array of types of financial service businesses. The Financial Action Task Force , working with the Offshore Group of Banking Supervisors and other relevant organizations, should continue to focus attention on offshore banking. The agreement in Paris in February 1997 to undertake compatible mutual evaluations of these constituencies should be given a high priority for early implementation.