Amazon countries are stepping-up measures to counter illicit financing of nature crime

With the announcement by the US of a new initiative to counter the illicit financing of environment crime in the Amazon, there are signs the issue is finally an international priority. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen launched the Amazon Regional Initiative Against Illicit Finance last month with the stated aim of boosting training, cooperation, and information sharing to help authorities pursue money-laundering investigations against transnational criminal organizations. The US is poised to step-up the fight against the world’s third most profitable category of organized crime.

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