Brussels, 23/02/2000 (Agence Europe) - The Austrian Government has announced that it will be taking, within three months, the measures required to do away with anonymous savings accounts. This decision was taken as Austria faces the threat of expulsion from the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) and a European Commission action before the Court of Justice.
At the start of the month, FATF (an intergovernmental body created in 1989 by the G7 Summit in Paris, with 26 member...