For Immediate Release
February 11, 2005

Contacts:
Alejandra Slatapolsky
aslatapolsky@moneylaundering.com
Danielle Scott
dscott@moneylaundering.com
Telephone: (305) 530-0500 or 800-232-3652

Another world-record crowd, of 1,200, flocking to Money Laundering Alert’s annual South Florida conference

An astounding 1,200 registered attendees are flocking to Miami and Ft. Lauderdale from around the globe to attend the largest money laundering terrorist financing conference in the world.

Money Laundering Alert’s 10th Annual International Money Laundering Conference and Exhibition at the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa in Hollywood, Florida will host a wide array of anti-money laundering professionals from nearly 60 countries, including double coverage of both extremes of the alphabet – Albania and Argentina and Zambia and Zimbabwe. (The countries presently represented among registered attendees appear below.)

The record crowd breaks Money Laundering Alert’s own world mark that it set in each of the last five years. (See chart below.) Of the 50-or-so money laundering conferences in the United States and around the world each year, Money Laundering Alert’s annual conference draws the biggest crowd by far.

56 speakers, 31 panels

The upcoming conference sponsored by the 15-year-old world-renowned publication will feature 56 top world experts who will speak on 28 panels, 3 workshops and a live Web Seminar during the three-day conference at the Westin Diplomat.

57 sponsors and exhibitors

Money Laundering Alert’s conference also features the world’s largest exhibition of anti-money laundering software, professional services and other products for financial institutions, money services firms, non-financial businesses and government agencies. About 60 companies and firms, ranging from software providers to major international law firms, forensic accounting and investigative firms, will staff booths to meet and greet the 1,200 attendees and some two dozen members of the world media.

Websites carry new speakers

Money Laundering Alert’s websites at www.moneylaunderingconference.com, www.moneylaundering.com and in Spanish at www.lavadodinero.com have the conference brochure in PDF as well as full details on all the sponsors and exhibitors, including new ones that have been added since the printed brochure went to print.

The new speakers include Elise Bean, a top member of the staff of the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which is investigating the wide-ranging Riggs Bank scandal that has led to so much federal regulatory activity in the past year. The panel, through its ranking minority member, Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, was the source of many of the money laundering provisions of the USA Patriot Act in which Ms. Bean played a leading role.

Lively, audience-participation format

Money Laundering Alert’s conferences are characterized by a dynamic audience-participation format in which the speakers confront questions from the audience through a roving expert moderator. Over the years, more than 90% of the attendees have rated the conference as “Excellent.” This year, 16 moderators will facilitate the various panels.

The lead moderators will be Money Laundering Alert founder and former federal prosecutor, Charles A. Intriago, Saskia Rietbroek-Garces, the Executive Director of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists, and Michael McDonald, the principal of Michael McDonald & Associates, of Miami, and a pioneer in the money laundering field stretching back to his 28 years as a Special Agent of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division.

Steep growth in attendance

Attendance at Money Laundering Alert’s conference has grown dramatically since 1999:

Countries Represented as of February 11, 2005 Among Registered Attendees at Money Laundering Alert’s Annual International Conference, March 2-4, 2005

1. ALBANIA
2. ANTIGUA
3. ARGENTINA
4. ARUBA
5. AUSTRALIA
6. AUSTRIA
7. AZERBAIJAN
8. BRITISH WEST INDIES
9. BAHAMAS
10. BAHRAIN
11. BARBADOS
12. BELGIUM
13. BELIZE
14. BERMUDA
15. BOLIVIA
16. BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
17. CANADA
18. CAYMAN ISLANDS
19. CHILE
20. CHINA
21. COLOMBIA
22. COSTA RICA
23. DOMINICA
24. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
25. ECUADOR
26. EL SALVADOR
27. GEORGIA
28. GERMANY
29. GUATEMALA
30. GUYANA
31. HAITI
32. INDIA
33. ISLE OF MAN
34. JAMAICA
35. LATVIA
36. MEXICO
37. NETHERLANDS
38. NICARAGUA
39. NIGERIA
40. PAKISTAN
41. PANAMA
42. SIERRA LEONE
43. SOUTH AFRICA
44. SPAIN
45. SWITZERLAND
46. TRINDAD TOBAGO
47. TURKS/CAICOS
48. U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS
49. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
50. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
51. UNITED KINGDOM
52. VENEZUELA
53. ZAMBIA
54. ZIMBABWE

Press facilities

The conference will offer fully-equipped press facilities for media coverage, including a press room for interviews and press conferences.

About the publications and products of Alert Global Media, Inc.

Money Laundering Alert and Moneylaundering.com Premium and lavadodinero.com are the world’s foremost sources of money laundering news, analysis and guidance. In addition to the annual international conference in South Florida, Money Laundering Alert and Moneylaundering.com Premium conduct annual money laundering conferences in Latin America and Europe.

Registration information is available at www.moneylaunderingconference.com

(Accredited members of the press may obtain credentials by contacting Alejandra Slatapolsky at alejandras@moneylaundering.com or by calling (305) 530-0500.)