SINT MAARTEN IS ‘THE FRIENDLY ISLAND’, BUT ARE MONEY LAUNDERERS LEFT SMILING?
February 18th, 2024
Sint Maarten, an autonomous country within the Dutch Caribbean, has been struggling to strengthen its AML/CFT system, although it has made tangible progress. Sint Maarten, which comprises the southern third of the island of St Martin in the north-east Caribbean, which it shares with the French collectivity of Saint Martin, had 12 follow up reports for its latest third mutual evaluation round by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) (1). That has now been completed (in 2020), and CFATF is now preparing to put Sint Maarten through a fourth mutual ...
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