NARCOTICS AND LAUNDERING IN FRANCE (FROM UNAFEI REPORT FOR 1992 AND RESOURCE MATERIAL SERIES NO. 43, 1993, P 106-117 TAKASHI WATANABE, ED., SEE NCJ-146381)

• NCJ Number: 146384
• Author(s): P Dillange
• Date Published: 1993
• Length: 12 pages
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Type: Survey
• Language: English
• Country: Japan

Annotation

This is a report on drug addiction in France and its consequences; and police, court, and legislative actions.

Abstract

The paper begins with a review and analysis of figures reflecting an ongoing advance in the use of and trade in narcotics in their most serious aspects, especially addict deaths. The current drug addict program in France assigns priority to prevention and cure in the case of mere addicts, prosecution in the case of user-dealers and user-criminals. Laundering of drug-derived money is the only type of money-laundering which is criminal in France. However, the entirety of the discussion in this paper is equally applicable to crime-derived money of all sources. Corruption of public authorities as a corollary of laundering is not discussed herein since that problem does not exist in France. There is discussion of laundering methods and the cost of laundering. There also is a brief review of French laws for deterrence of laundering of funds derived from the drug trade, and of deterrent agencies, as well as a summary of the banking industry's justification of laundering.