On Wednesday 21 November, MEPs explored ways to increase the protection of whistle-blowers who reveal money laundering scandals in a special European Parliament committee on financial crime, TAXE 3. They noted that the EU has much to learn from the United States in this area.
Their guest of honour was whistle-blower Howard Wilkinson (see EUROPE 12108), who helped to reveal the money laundering scandal hitting the Estonian subsidiary of Denmark's leading bank, Danske Bank...