A project to improve money laundering prevention and control capacity for judicial and law enforcement bodies in Vietnam was launched on September 19 by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the General Department of Police.

Funded by the governments of Canada and the UK, the three-year project was ratified and signed by the Vietnamese Government and the UNODC in June 2007.

Between now and the end of this year, the project will set up a national committee for money laundering control and map out a national strategy on the issue.