NEW TALIBAN REGIME IN AFGHANISTAN PROMPTS MAJOR AML/CFT CONCERN
April 25th, 2022
Since the Taliban’s takeover last August (2021), Afghanistan’s AML/CFT regime has effectively been put on pause, while the country’s money laundering and terrorist financing risks mount amid international isolation.
The website of Afghanistan’s financial intelligence unit (FIU) is no longer active online. Like many other former government websites, it stopped working in March, eight months after the USA’s withdrawal and the Taliban’s takeover.
It is yet another sign of the growing isolation of the country’s financial sector, with Afghanistan being ...
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