DOHA (Reuters) - Gulf Arab countries must boost regional law enforcement to protect their newly launched financial centres, which may be prone to money laundering and terror funding, a top U.N. official said on Monday.
Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, said the Gulf region which was already vulnerable to money laundering and drug trafficking, needed a regional criminal centre to better fight such crimes.
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