On Friday, September 5, the Group Financial Action Unit (FATF), the Egmont Group of Intelligence Units Financial, Interpol and the United Nations Office on Drugs and the crime (UNODC) called for strengthened global collaboration between analysts, investigators, prosecutors and other actors to fight money laundering.

The FATF, the Group Egmont, Interpol and UNODC have launched a manual for the occasion that provides tools to help countries speed up investigations and translate more criminals in court. This manual highlights concrete cases that demonstrate the impact of international cooperation, and is accompanied by three guides practices. According to the president of the FATF, Elisa de Anda Madrazo, “an international threat requires an international response. Les victims are often on the other side of the world compared to the criminals that are destroying their lives or their means of subsistence.”