FINCEN Director Briefs ABA Group on New Trends in the International Effort to Combat Money Laundering

On June 11, 1991, Peter G. Djinis, Director of Treasury Department's Office of Financial Enforcement, addressed the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section and highlighted "new and revolutiuonary developments" in the efforts to combat international money laundering. Mr. Djinis, who was formerly a trial attorney with the Justice Department's Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section where he investigated and prosecuted several large and temporarily successful drug trafficking and money laundering organizations, including serving as a national coordinator in Operation Polar Cap, made his breakfast address to an audience of approximately 35 persons, which included several reporters.