Brussels, 07/12/2004 (Agence Europe) - Tuesday's Ecofin Council adopted a general political approach with a view to adopting the new directive on combating money laundering, aimed at extending the directive's scope to the financing of terrorism and to serious infringements such as corruption and fraud. The proposal transposes into European law several of the nine recommendations made by the Financial Action Task Force on money laundering. In future, new professions are expected to carry out...