Thank you for being here today.
I must say I'm somewhat surprised. There is one issue I'm quite interested in. In organized crime, we have to be able to follow the money. With organized crime, it is always about the money. Clearly, all these activities have one objective: making money.
As far as following cell phones goes, I was a criminal lawyer for 30 years, and I can tell you that my clients knew how you could intercept them. If you are still at that stage today, you've got some problems.
In the study we are beginning, I am interested in finding out whether you have ways of following the money. More specifically, the issue is finding out how organized crime launders billions of dollars, because we are no longer talking about millions of dollars, but rather billions of dollars. I would like to know whether we can determine whether people in organized crime have invested in public or private companies with a respectable façade. I am not asking you to tell me all about that today; clearly, that will be done in in camera meetings. I am interested in knowing whether you can follow the money today. I must say that barely 10 years ago, you could not do that. You followed it up to a point, but then you lost it in the Cayman Islands, in Barbados, Liechtenstein, Switzerland or Monaco. Are you able to follow the money now? We will be able to cause these people trouble once we can do that. We have passed legislation to do exactly that.