Syrian President Bashar Assad Sunday issued a decree against money laundering for the financing of terrorism, Syria's official news agency SANA said. The decree defined such money laundering and the duties of banks and financial institutions to supervise such operations. It created an independent body - the "Body of Combating Money Laundering Operations and Financing Terrorism" - with judicial links to the state-run Central Bank of Syria. SANA said the decree considered as illegal assets stemming from drug crimes, illegal weapons dealings, internationally-defined organized crimes, smuggling or manufacturing weapons and their ammunitions and explosives, illegally transporting migrants, organized prostitution operations, stealing, smuggling or illegally trading in nuclear, chemical and biochemical weapons, illegally merchandizing with human organs and germinal poisonous materials and embezzling public or private assets. --SP 2315 Local Time 2015 GMT
