General Framework of the Recommendations

Recommendation 1
Each country should take immediate steps to ratify and to implement fully, the 1988 United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (the Vienna Convention)

Recommendation 2
Financial institution secrecy laws should be conceived so as not to inhibit implementation of these recommendations.

Recommendation 3
An effective money laundering enforcement program should include increased multilateral co-operation and mutual legal assistance in money laundering investigations and prosecutions and extradition in money laundering cases, where possible.

Introduction

Scope