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IRS Criminal Division to Expand International Attaché Presence: Official
By Colby Adams
printThe criminal division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service will send representatives to two nations in an effort to better coordinate financial crime investigations, a senior agency official said Monday. IRS Criminal Investigations (IRS-CI) will likely dispatch the permanent attach?©s to South Africa and Europol, the European Union's Netherlands-based law enforcement and financial intelligence agency, unit Chief Richard Weber said following a keynote speech delivered at the ACAMS 11th Annual AML & Financial Crime Conference in Las Vegas. "We're wanting to develop more criminal cases and these are the regions we think will help us get to that goal," said...
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