The penny has dropped

Tristram Hicks has been training financial investigators and prosecutors in the EU and elsewhere since 2010. To contact him, just Google his name, he’s the only one.

Drawing on years of research and evidence the Home Affairs Select Committee alleges that “London is a centre for money laundering”, concluding that “Proceeds of Crime legislation [enabled in 2003] has failed to achieve its purpose.” In a landmark report [1], the Committee makes substantive and far-reaching recommendations, which if implemented, says Tristram Hicks, would promise a dramatic increase in enforcement against money laundering and the financial crime that initiates it.