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evant international accords include the Vienna Convention, the 1990 Council of Europe Convention, the Basle Committee Statement of Principles, the European Union Directive, and the Resolution of the International Organization of Securities Commissions. The FATE consists of representatives from 26 countries and 2 international organizations. The challenge for accountants and internal auditors Accountants and internal auditors can play a key role in bating money laundering. Section 352 of the Patriot Act requires all financial institutions to establish anti 一 money laundering programs. These programs must include (at a minimum ): new reporting requirements for financial institutions(1996)。 the Terrorism Prevention Act of 1995。 the Money Laundering Suppression Act(1994)。 the Annuzio 一 Wylie Act of 1992。 the Crime Control Act of 1990。 the Anti 一 Drug Abuse Act of 1988。s hightech global environment, the money laundering process is even harder to trace than it was in the past. Alvin James, Principal at Ernst and Young,LLP, examined the use of underground financial systems, such as the Colombian Black Market Peso Exchange (BMPE), by terrorists. He noted that while terrorists may not need to launder their money, they do need the means to move the funds covertly. James notes that the major similarity among under ground financial systems, also called parallel payment systems, is their ability to facilitate anonymous international transfers of money. That ability is what makes these existing systems so attractive to terrorists: they can use them to move the dollars needed to support their activities. Experts indicate that there should be more coordinated efforts against the BMPE and other money laundering operations. The nature of these efforts should include securities, insurance, and money 一 changing enterprises. Efforts should be made to force drug dollars out of the safety of the parallel payment systems and into an area less secure for them and more susceptible to law enforcement. The extent of the problem. It is difficult to precisely measure the extent of money laundering, including the number of terrorist dollars moving through the same financial channels. The people and organizations that engage in these activities obviously are not reporting them to the government. However, there have been numerous attempts to establish the magnitude of the laundering around the globe has been estimated at $500 billion a year. John Walker Consulting Services in Australia has created a logical crime economic model that draws on public crime statistics and uses various socioeconomic inputs to estimate the percentage of crime proceeds that will be laundered and where it will take aggregate these estimates and assess the likely extent of money laundering and each country39。 step is performed to hide the illicit funds. Layering is acplished by creating plex levels of financial transactions to obsc