A spokesperson for the Ministry of Finance confirmed the move.
Minister of Finance Keit Pentus-Rosimannus (Reform) said Estonia s investigation and oversight institutions have good and direct contacts with their U.S. partners and active cooperation in the framework of money laundering investigations is taking place.
Information exchanges related to money laundering investigations have already taken place and will take place in the future by means of direct communication between the institutions of the two countries. Additionally, Estonia will send a justice attache to work in the U.S.
One of the most important tasks for the justice attache will be to represent and defend the interests of the Estonian state in large money laundering investigations, in order for Estonia to possibly be part of the sharing of penalties in the future.
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The Reform Party and Center Party coalition covers the political spectrum in Estonia more or less as completely as a Reform-SDE-Isamaa alliance would. However, cooperation between the two largest Riigikogu parties can only be pragmatic, which is the only way to pull Estonia out of the bog it has sunk into, Rein Raud writes.
I have never been a voter of the Reform Party or the Center Party, even though for different reasons.
The cynicism, arrogance and almost uncompromising loyalty to the wealthiest part of society of many leading Reformists has rubbed me the wrong way.
My criticism for Center concerns their overly flexible morals and a potential lack of a backbone among several leading figures of the party. And, of course, jumping from one corruption scandal to the next and an allegedly dormant cooperation agreement with the ruling party in the Kremlin.
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