This is the untold history of how prominent civil servants in the UK tailored US-devised anti-money laundering (AML) policies in ways that suited the needs of Britain’s financial services industry. In the aftermath of these initial compromises in 1987, criminal money managers in both the US and the UK were able to continue to operate in an environment that easily allowed them to hide and use dirty money. The researchers analysed six months of previously unseen personal correspondence and documents exchanged between various actors in the UK Government during 1987. From this they conclude that the core of the current, global AML regime, was not the destruction of drug money laundering and banking secrecy, nor the ending of criminal financial enablers and with it hot money; rather it was the protection and leverage of national trading interests on both sides of the Atlantic. And the drive to protect these interests would see crime control laws made, amended and changed to cater for the interests of the US and UK banking and finance industries. The file had been classified as secret and held by the UK Treasury until it was released to the public in 2017 as an archive document transferred to The National Archives in accordance with The Public Records Act and the Freedom of Information Act.

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适合洗钱的世界：大西洋联盟对有组织犯罪控制的破坏

这是英国杰出公务员如何以适合英国金融服务业需求的方式定制美国设计的反洗钱 (AML) 政策的不为人知的历史。在 1987 年这些最初的妥协之后，美国和英国的犯罪资金管理者能够继续在一个很容易让他们隐藏和使用脏钱的环境中经营。研究人员分析了 1987 年英国政府不同行为者之间六个月以前看不见的个人通信和文件交换。 由此他们得出结论，当前全球反洗钱制度的核心不是破坏毒品洗钱和银行保密，也不是犯罪金融推动者的终结以及随之而来的热钱；相反，它是对大西洋两岸国家贸易利益的保护和杠杆作用。为了保护这些利益，犯罪控制法律将被制定、修改和改变，以迎合美国和英国银行和金融业的利益。该文件已被列为机密并由英国财政部持有，直到 2017 年根据《公共记录法》和《信息自由法》将其作为档案文件转移到国家档案馆向公众发布。