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"en.20000705.4.3-155"2
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"You claim to be fighting financial crime and dirty money and yet even your report recognises the absence of any political will on the part of the Member States. The reasons are not technical, they are political – social even – in an economy whose sole purpose is to generate maximum profits.
So where, in your economy, is the dividing line between dirty money and allegedly clean money? Are the profits from the arms trade clean money? Are the huge sums spent bribing officials in order to land public procurement contracts clean money? Are the profits amassed by western companies by making children under ten work in poor countries for a pittance clean money?
In order to eradicate financial crime, we need to start by abolishing banking secrecy and business secrecy and grant any civil group the right to inspect the accounts of companies and their owners and shareholders. You, however, do not even seem able to contemplate measures such as this. You prefer to remain ineffectual against traffickers and the mafia rather than making people realise that there are plenty of other ways of making money which are criminal from a humane point of view, from the point of view of the general good, starting with companies that throw employees on to the street, condemning them to a life of poverty, in order to increase their share price and their shareholders’ wealth."@en1
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