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COPYRIGHT 2001 The Miami Herald
Byline: Gregg Fields
Mar. 30--They are the kind of everyday, ordinary South Florida events that would never be cause for concern.
A tourist buys a toy truck at Toys "R" Us.
A crate of women's underwear arrives from a South American garment factory.
A lawyer takes a Caribbean vacation.
And yet, experts at a massive Miami Beach conference said, each action very well could be part of a vast global effort to launder money -- the clean-sounding phrase for moving the dirty money of criminal enterprises into legitimate financial systems.
The International Money Laundering Conference, being held this week at the Fontainebleau Hilton in Miami Beach, is no minor meeting -- some 600 delegates from 42 countries...
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