"On 17 June 2002, the ruling junta enacted ?The Control of Money Laundering Law” Law No. 6/2002. Far back in December 2001 the need for Money Laundering Law 1 in Burma was focused in this journal thus: ?All economic activities in Burma have become instruments of drug money laundering. At least 50% of Burma?s economy is unaccounted for and extralegal: the earnings from heroin now exceed those from all of Burma?s legal exports.”..."