Provincial authorities and
local police meet to plan the APEC anti-money laundering summit to be
held Sept. 22-24 at the Dusit Thani Hotel.
Urasin Khantaraphan
About 150 government and law-enforcement officials from
Asian-Pacific countries will meet Sept. 22-24 in Pattaya to continue
work on a regional framework to weed out corruption and curb money
laundering.
Chairath Kanitabooth, deputy secretary for the National Anti-Corruption
Commission Office, and Amnat Donngam, deputy commander for the 14th
Military Circle in Chonburi, joined provincial authorities and local
police Sept. 4 to plan the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Multi-Year
Project meeting to be held at the Dusit Thani Hotel.
The APEC Multi-Year Project began last year with a meeting in Chile to
draft a handbook that provides information on how to investigate and
prosecute graft and money laundering. The manual will be a key document
for countries that lack a systematic approach to investigating
corruption and money laundering, especially when it comes to following
the money trail.
The book will focus on effective techniques to backtrack money and
intelligent investigation, which can be used as evidence to improve the
system to prevent corruption through APEC’s Anti-Corruption-Focused
Financial Intelligence Unit. A third meeting in the Philippines is
planned for next year.
Talks began in Chile in April 2013, focused on investigation and
prosecution. This month’s session in Thailand will review work done
since April and add new measures on backtracking.
Attending the session will be government authorities and police from
APEC nations and those outside the region, including U.S. Federal Bureau
of Investigation and International Center for Asset Recovery of the
Basel Institute on Governance in Switzerland.
