Preface. Table of treaties and agreements. List of abbreviations. Part I. New instruments in the fight against acquisitive crime: confiscation of proceeds from crime and criminalisation of money laundering: 1. The background of the fight against money laundering; 2. The confiscation; 3. The fight against money laundering: genesis of a new crime. Part II. The prevention of money laundering: 4. The application field of legislation on the prevention of money laundering; 5. The role of financial institutions in the prevention of money laundering; 6. The role of Financial Intelligence Units in combating money laundering; 7. The role of the supervisory authorities in combating money laundering. Part III. Jurisdiction over money laundering: 8. Various types of jurisdictional problems in the fight against money laundering; 9. Territorial jurisdiction in respect of money laundering offences; 10. Extraterritorial jurisdiction in respect of money laundering offences. Part IV. International co-operation in combating money laundering: 11. The money laundering regime: new objectives of international co-operation in criminal matters; 12. The money laundering regime: new modes of international evidence-gathering; 13. Some of the conditions, principles and exceptions of mutual judicial assistance in criminal matters revisited; 14. Lifting banking secrecy in an international context; 15. Provisional measures to preserve alleged proceeds of crime in an international context; 16. International enforcement of confiscation orders. Epilogue. Bibliography.