The National Initiative to Combat Money Laundering: Year Three Evaluation
February 14, 2003
This report was prepared by About Business Crime Solutions Inc., Toronto, Ontario, 416 466 7591
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Recommendations
1.0 Evaluation Rationale
1.1 The Evaluation Objectives 1.2 Key Issues Examined 1.3 Evaluation Design and Methodology 2.0 The Initiative: Its Objectives and Expected Outcomes 2.1 Background
2.2 Initiative Objectives
2.3 Expected Outcomes
3.0 Design and Delivery
3.1 Partners and Resources 3.2 Roles and Responsibilities 4.0 The Findings 4.1 Implementation
4.1.1 Overall Use of Resources 4.1.2 Legislative Development 4.1.3 Consultation Process 4.1.4 Communication 4.1.5 Implementation in each Department 4.1.6 A Challenge in Data Management 4.2 Outcomes 4.2.1 Key Outcomes
4.2.2 International Commitments
4.2.3 Unintended Impacts
5.0 Conclusions
List of Tables
Table 1: Initiative Resources by Department/Agency ($)
Table 2: Costing Implications
Table 3: In-house Money Laundering Files, Charges and Accused by Year
Table 4: FATF Recommendations Requiring Specific Action
Appendices
1.0 Evaluation Approach
1.1 Design 1.2 Data Sources and Methodology 2.0 National Initiative to Combat Money Laundering Logic Model 3.0 Partner Activity Development
4.0 FINTRAC Business Process Model 5.0 Assessment of FATF Recommendations
5.1 FATF Recommendations Requiring Specific Action 5.2 Analysis of the Self Awareness Recommendation Compliance Exercise (1999 - 2002)
6.0 Media Review
6.1 Press Releases 6.2 General Media Articles 6.3 References 7.0 Literature Review: ‘Transaction Reporting Regimes and Financial Intelligence Units’ 7.1 Introduction
7.2 Conceptual Overview
7.3 Some General Evaluation Findings
7.4 Evaluation Of Four Countries (USA, Australia, UK & Canada)
8.0 List of Contributors
9.0 Document Review References 10.0 Interview and Focus Group Interview Guides
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