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Maltese authorities lack the skills and resources required to investigate complex financial crimes and supervise their country's relatively large and high-risk financial sector for anti-money laundering purposes, an intergovernmental group claimed Thursday. In a report on its evaluation of Malta, Moneyval, the Financial Action Task Force's representative in Europe, found the nation has sound rules against money laundering, but has not invested enough towards mitigating the threat of organized crime nor addressed the risk that foreign banking clients, online casinos and cryptocurrency firms pose to its financial system. Moneyval for the first time also measured how well Malta's rules against...