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                                THE WEEK IN 
                                REVIEW: Monday, November 7, 1994 to Friday, 
                                November 11, 1994  | 
							     
                                
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						         TUESDAY, November 8, 
                                1994 - The Financial Post, November 12, 1994  | 
							     
								
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                                     Canada's 
                                    lax currency laws allow billions of dollars 
                                    to be 
                                    laundered here annually and interfere with 
                                    international 
                                    investigations, one of the world's top Mafia 
                                    fighters said. Canada 
                                    has ''at least 10 organized-crime groups but 
                                    . . . there is no law 
                                    that targets organized crime, as there is 
                                    both in Italy and the 
                                    U.S.,'' Italian prosecutor Nicola Gratteri 
                                    told a Toronto symposium 
                                    on the global Mafia. Antonio 
                                    Nicaso, 
                                    an organized crime specialist 
                                    and the writer of several books, told the 
                                    audience Canada is the 
                                    ''underworld laboratory for organized 
                                    crime.''  | 
								 
							 
							 
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