ABSTRACT
The purpose of the Conference at Courmayeur was a question far more complex than one would at first believe. There was the need to develop more effective, ideally global, strategies to prevent and control money laundering and the use of the proceeds of crime. But the task before the conference was even greater, because what was necessary was not only to develop better solutions but to reassess the very nature of the problem. Indeed, the conference represented a stepping stone in the way we respond to the problem and in the new way we view what has hitherto been seen as unisectoral issue. Money laundering and the use of the proceeds of crime are activities deeply entrenched in the major political, economic and social concerns of a new era The event was an opportunity to reinforce the core of expertise needed to carry this message to the rest of the world.
