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Reuters - Vigilance over politicians’ accounts urged as cash flows from Middle East

1st March 2011

An international financial crime watchdog has been urged not to relax its stance on monitoring political officials in the light of the desperate scramble to freeze the assets of deposed leaders in the Middle East and North Africa, says Martin Coyle of Reuters. Read here.

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