FATF RAISES CONCERN OVER TURKISH FIU EFFECTIVENESS FOLLOWING 2016 COUP
December 1st, 2019
THE FINANCIAL Action Task Force (FATF) has raised concerns about the effectiveness of the Turkey’s Financial Crimes Investigation Board (MASAK) given its involvement in a significant number of legal cases since the 2016 coup, which sparked a wave of government action against suspected or actual political opponents. In a rather critical assessment of Turkey’s AML/CFT record, FATF said that: “MASAK’s work has increased many fold since the attempted coup in 2016 with an exponential rise in judicial requests from public prosecution and courts, which has ...
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