Egypt: Al-Wafd on US pressure for law against money laundering

"I have no objection to issuing a new anti money laundering law in the crimes of planting, manufacturing and trading in narcotics, nor in the kidnapping and detention of people, nor in terrorism and the importing of and trading in weapons and ammunition, nor in the crimes of libertinism and prostitution, nor those against antiquities or related to the preservation of the environment, to the end of the crimes listed in Article 2 of the draft law on money laundering that was prepared by the government and presented to the People's Assembly for an immediate endorsement. I have no objection to that, but my objection is that the USA is pressuring us to issue that law, and imposes it on us and on other countries against the will of the government and the state agencies and institutions."