Britain's performance on money laundering is to be assessed next year by the Financial Action Task Force, an inter-governmental policy-making body to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. Potentially suspicious transactions reported by professional firms, banks and businesses handling large sums of money showed a 10-fold increase in the last five years from 18,400 in 2000 to just under 200,000 last year. The difficulty, as former home secretary David Blunkett noted, is that 'organised criminals are more organised than we are'.
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