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Ghana: PROTECTING GHANA AND GHANA’S EMERGING OFF-SHORE CENTRE STATUS FROM MONEY LAUNDERING

14 March, 2010 - 06:05

PROTECTING GHANA AND GHANA'S EMERGING OFF-SHORE CENTRE STATUS FROM MONEY LAUNDERING

Notes of a lecture given by John Hardy QC at the British Council in Accra on Tuesday 9 March 2010.

I: BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION

1. There is nothing new about money laundering. Ever since currencies were first introduced, they have been used for the conduct of legitimate trade, and to act as a representative mechanism for all legitimate economic activity. But they have also been vulnerable in two particular ways: first to dilution through counterfeiting, and, second to being used as a shield for criminal activity. That shielding or disguising is what we call money-laundering. It is[...]

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