07/06/2018 (Agence Europe) – On Thursday 7 June, the ambassadors of the member states, meeting within Coreper, confirmed the inter-institutional agreement reached one week earlier (see EUROPE 12031) on the directive on tackling money laundering through criminal law. The text sets out a maximum prison sentence of at least four years and a number of alternative penalties for the infringements listed in the directive, such as a temporary or permanent exclusion from access to public financing....