FATF AFRICA MEETING – AFRICA MONEY LAUNDERING INITIATIVE
February 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD'S senior anti-money laundering body, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is to focus on Africa, following a meeting of the international organisation, in Cape Town last week. FATF members approved a strategy where its officials and those of the Eastern and Southern Africa Money Laundering Group "work together more aggressively to combat money laundering and terrorist financing in the region". FATF decided to retain Nigeria (and Myanmar) on its list of countries with inadequate anti-money laundering legal regimes. A ...
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