HALISTER1: Angola Removed From Money-Laundering Monitoring List: FATF

Angola Removed From Money-Laundering Monitoring List: FATF

(Bloomberg) -- “Angola has established the legal and regulatory framework to meet its commitments in its action plan regarding the strategic deficiencies’’ identified in June 2010 and February 2013, Financial Action Task Force says in statement on its website.
  • Country enacted 23 of 41 regulations on money laundering, financing of terrorism required by FATF
  • Govt to continue working with regional body known as Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group to address “issues” identified in mutual evaluation report: FATF
  • “Removing Angola from monitoring list Against Money Laundering will improve the country’s credit quality and local financial institutions”: National Bank of Angola Governor Jose Pedro de Morais in statement on central bank website
  • Link to FATF statement: http://bit.ly/1owRwkn
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