Moldova and Slovenia will cooperate intenser to prevent money laundering, after a memorandum of understanding between the Moldovan Center for Combating Economic Crimes and Corruption (CCCEC) and its Slovenian counterpart took effect, Info-Prim Neo reports. CCCEC signed the memorandum with the Slovenian Ministry of Finance's Office for Money Laundering Prevention to establish collaboration in combating legalization (laundering) of incomes from illegal activities and financing of terrorism. According to CCCEC's press unit, under this memorandum, the parties will collaborate in order to facilitate the exchange of information concerning prevention and countering of money laundering and terrorist financing. The memorandum was signed in Ljubljana on 27 October 2008 and took effect this week.