NEW EGMONT GROUP CHAIR LOOKS TO LEVERAGE FIU EXPERTISE AS AML WORLD FACES NEW POLITICAL AND TECHNICAL CHALLENGES
August 30th, 2022
Xolisile Khanyile, the director of South Africa’s Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) has been appointed chair of the Egmont Group (EG) of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs), taking over from July for a two -year term. She replaces the Netherlands’ Hennie Verbeek-Kusters, who had served as chair since 2020. Ms Khanyile is a career prosecutor, having also served for five years as South Africa’s director of public prosecutions (DPP). She assumes office as the AML/CFT world struggles with the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the unprecedented ...
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