U.S. Dirty-Money Law Seeks to Expose Owners of Shell Companies
- Bankers and cops will learn who’s behind thousands of entities
- Transparency push arrives in U.S., a top illicit-money haven
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Criminals may soon find it much harder to stash their dirty money anonymously in the U.S.
That’s because the 2021 defense authorization bill passed overwhelmingly by the House late Tuesday includes a provision that would require companies to identify their owners when they register in U.S. states.