§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will provide a breakdown of how many convictions there have been for money laundering in total across the EU, and in each individual member state, in each of the last 10 years. [12393]
§ Mr. Bob AinsworthThe term "money laundering" refers to a number of different offences. Information taken from the Home Office court proceedings database showing the number of persons convicted for money laundering offences during the period 1991 to 2000 in England and Wales is given in table 1.
Data for other European Union (EU) states are not collected regularly. The data in table 2 have been produced from a paper produced by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and was collected from the mutual evaluations of FATF members of which two rounds have occurred since 1991.
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Table 2: Number of convictions for money laundering offences, in certain EU countries Country Year Convictions Belgium 1994–99 182 Denmark 1994–99 88 Germany 1994 16 1995 15 1996 30 Ireland 1995–99 11 Italy 1994 125 1995 1996 Source:
Financial Action Task Force