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French officials hope to streamline their investigations of money laundering and other profit-driven crimes by placing them under the supervision of a single agency, the Anti-Financial Crimes Sub-directorate, or SDLCF, which is set to begin full operations in the first half of 2020. Hit by a major scandal involving a budget minister in 2012, France reacted in the years that followed by creating the French Anti-Corruption Agency, or AFA; a branch within the national police force, the OCLCIFF, to investigate graft and major tax fraud; and an office for pursuing cases against financial criminals, the Parquet National Financier, or PNF....