Strasbourg, 07/07/2000 (Agence Europe) - With the adoption of the report by German Christian Democrat Klaus-Heiner Lehne, the European Parliament amended in first reading in the context of codecision procedure the draft directive which should allow the 1991 directive to be revised in order to step up prevention of the use of the financial system for money laundering. The main aim of the amendments adopted by the Parliament is to extend the scope of the directive in order to make the whole...