Tuesday February 8, 2011

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MEXICO CITY – The Mexican Senate plans to analyze Spain’s approach to fighting money laundering during a seminar this week that will include experts from three Spanish universities, the National Action Party’s legislative group in the upper house of Congress said.

The seminar, which will take place on Wednesday, will allow Mexican lawmakers to “obtain the most and best possible information about the issue of corruption and international approaches to preventing money laundering,” the senators said.

Among the experts scheduled to attend the “Seminario Internacional sobre Corrupcion y Lavado de Dinero (International Seminar on Corruption and Money Laundering) are Jorge Malen, of Barcelona’s Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Javier Fernandez Teruedo, of the University of Oviedo, and Eduardo Fabian Caparros, of the University of Salamanca.

The head of the Finance Secretariat’s Financial Intelligence Unit, as well as the Federal Police’s coordinator of operations targeting ill-gotten gains, Jesus Alberto Fernandez Wilburn, will also share their knowledge with seminar participants.

The seminar is being held jointly with the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption, or GOPAC, and the Instituto Belisario Dominguez, a Mexican Senate agency that provides applied research on legislative activities. EFE