NCJ Number
151724
Journal
Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences Volume: 26 Issue: 1 Dated: (January-June 1994) Pages: 15-24
Date Published
1994
Length
10 pages
Annotation
Australia's Financial Transaction Reports Act of 1988 creates two components of the government's approach to organized crime: it erects barriers in the financial sector and facilitates the provision of financial information for law enforcement purposes.
Abstract
The law requires comprehensive reporting and identification and bans the opening or operating of false- name accounts with banks and other cash dealers. It also provides that details on suspicious financial activity, major cash movements, and international telegraphic funds transfers be reported to the AUSTRAC computer, analyzed, and made available to the Australian Taxation Office and law enforcement agencies in Australia. These measures and the use of AUSTRAC increase the likelihood that organized crime will be discovered. Attention to this issue is important, although Australia lacks the depth of crime and corruption found in some other countries. Figure and 7 references