A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare a threat and operational analysis of the use of remittances by drug kingpins, crime syndicates, and other persons to finance terrorism, narcotics trafficking, human trafficking, money laundering, and other forms of illicit financing, domestically or internationally.
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Latest Action · July 17, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Remittances and Money Laundering Risk Assessment Act of 2019
This bill requires the Department of the Treasury to assess and develop a strategy to prevent the use of remittances by certain individuals and crime syndicates for purposes of financing terrorism, narcotics trafficking, human trafficking, money laundering, and other forms of illicit financing. (Remittances are transfers of money and capital sent by migrants and foreign immigrant communities to their home countries.)
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