BRUSSELS, Belgium—Detailed plans are taking shape for the E.U.'s new anti-money laundering agency.
The agency is to have 150 staff in its first year of operation, growing to 300-350 in the subsequent two years, "before reaching probably 400 in cruising regime," the European Commission said.
According to EUobserver, the agency is to housed in a 10,000 square-meter office with a "very large meeting room" at its heart "with a table accommodating at least 50 persons at the front row, at least 60 persons at the second row, and 30-40 seats on the side.”
“And its brains will be buried in a beehive of some 30 entirely separate and highly secure offices, each one housing a financial-intelligence sleuth posted from one of the 27 E.U. capitals,” EUobserver stated.
"FIU (financial-intelligence unit) delegates will deal with sensitive information coming from their own FIU and they are bound by national confidentiality rules," the European Commission said.
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