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The EU has begun disbursing a €724 billion package of loans and grants to mitigate the commercial impact of COVID-19 and accelerate the bloc's transition to renewable energy and a digital economy, three areas that seem to have little, if any, connection to illicit finance. Some nations, however, will also see their efforts to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing boosted by the Recovery and Resilience Facility, or RRF, especially those where the EU has already identified shortcomings. More than 500 references to anti-money laundering, or AML, appear in the 7,000 pages of RRF-related records published to date, demonstrating the...