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12/13/19, 12:03 PM Public Statement - October 2019 Send Print Tweet Paris, 18 October 2019 - The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is the global standard-setting body for anti-money laundering and combating the ﬁnancing of terrorism (AML/CFT).
In order to protect the international ﬁnancial system from money laundering and ﬁnancing of terrorism (ML/FT) risks and to encourage greater compliance with the AML/CFT standards, the FATF identiﬁes jurisdictions that have strategic deﬁciencies and works with them to address those deﬁciencies that pose a risk to the international ﬁnancial system.
Jurisdiction subject to a FATF call on its members and other jurisdictions to apply counter-measures to protect the international ﬁnancial system from the ongoing and substantial money laundering and ﬁnancing of terrorism (ML/FT) risks.
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) The FATF remains concerned by the DPRK’s failure to address the signiﬁcant deﬁciencies in its anti- money laundering and combating the ﬁnancing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regime and the serious threats they pose to the integrity of the international ﬁnancial system.

The FATF urges the DPRK to immediately and meaningfully address its AML/CFT deﬁciencies.
Further, the FATF has serious concerns with the threat posed by the DPRK’s illicit activities related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and its ﬁnancing The FATF reafﬁrms its 25 February 2011 call on its members and urges all jurisdictions to advise their ﬁnancial institutions to give special attention to business relationships and transactions with the DPRK, including DPRK companies, ﬁnancial institutions, and those acting on their behalf.
In addition to enhanced scrutiny, the FATF further calls on its members and urges all jurisdictions to apply effective counter-measures, and targeted ﬁnancial sanctions in accordance with applicable United Nations Security Council Resolutions, to protect their ﬁnancial sectors from money laundering, ﬁnancing of terrorism and WMD proliferation ﬁnancing (ML/FT/PF) risks emanating from the DPRK.
Jurisdictions https://www.fatf-gafi.org/publications/high-risk-and-other-monitored-jurisdictions/documents/public-statement-october-2019.html Page 1 of 4 should take necessary measures to close existing branches, subsidiaries and representative ofﬁces of DPRK banks within their territories and terminate correspondent relationships with DPRK banks, where required by relevant UNSC resolutions.
12/13/19, 12:03 PM Jurisdiction subject to a FATF call on its members and other jurisdictions to apply, in line with Recommendation 19: 1) increased supervisory examination for branches and subsidiaries of ﬁnancial institutions based in Iran; 2) enhanced relevant reporting mechanisms or systematic reporting of ﬁnancial transactions; and 3) increased external audit requirements for ﬁnancial groups with respect to any of their branches and subsidiaries located in Iran.
Iran In June 2016, the FATF welcomed Iran’s high-level political commitment to address its strategic AML/CFT deﬁciencies, and its decision to seek technical assistance in the implementation of the Action Plan.

In November 2017, Iran established a cash declaration regime.

In August 2018, Iran has enacted amendments to its Counter-Terrorist Financing Act and in January 2019, Iran has also enacted amendments to its Anti-Money Laundering Act.

The FATF recognises the progress of these legislative efforts.
The bills to ratify the Palermo and Terrorist Financing Conventions have passed Parliament, but are not yet in force.

As with any country, the FATF can only consider fully enacted legislation.

Once the remaining legislation comes fully into force, the FATF will review this alongside the enacted legislation to determine whether the measures contained therein address Iran’s Action Plan, in line with the FATF standards.

Iran’s action plan expired in January 2018.
In October 2019, the FATF noted that there are still items not completed and Iran should fully address: (1) adequately criminalizing terrorist ﬁnancing, including by removing the exemption for designated groups “attempting to end foreign occupation, colonialism and racism”; (2) identifying and freezing terrorist assets in line with the relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions; (3) ensuring an adequate and enforceable customer due diligence regime; (4) clarifying that the submission of STRs for attempted TF-related transactions are covered under Iran’s legal framework; (5) demonstrating how authorities are identifying and sanctioning unlicensed https://www.fatf-gafi.org/publications/high-risk-and-other-monitored-jurisdictions/documents/public-statement-october-2019.html Page 2 of 4 12/13/19, 12:03 PM money/value transfer service providers; (6) ratifying and implementing the Palermo and TF Conventions and clarifying the capability to provide mutual legal assistance; and (7) ensuring that ﬁnancial institutions verify that wire transfers contain complete originator and beneﬁciary information.
The FATF decided in June 2019 to call upon its members and urge all jurisdictions to require increased supervisory examination for branches and subsidiaries of ﬁnancial institutions based in Iran.
In line with the June 2019 Public Statement, the FATF decided this week to call upon its members and urge all jurisdictions to introduce enhanced relevant reporting mechanisms or systematic reporting of ﬁnancial transactions; and require increased external audit requirements for ﬁnancial groups with respect to any of their branches and subsidiaries located in Iran.
If before February 2020, Iran does not enact the Palermo and Terrorist Financing Conventions in line with the FATF Standards, then the FATF will fully lift the suspension of counter-measures and call on its members and urge all jurisdictions to apply effective counter-measures, in line with recommendation 1 19 .

While acknowledging that Iran has recently adopted the AML-CFT bylaw, which the FATF has not yet reviewed, the FATF expresses its disappointment that the Action Plan remains outstanding.
The FATF expects Iran to proceed swiftly in the reform path to ensure that it addresses all of the remaining items by completing and implementing the necessary AML/CFT reforms.

Iran will remain on the FATF Public Statement until the full Action Plan has been completed.
Until Iran implements the measures required to address the deﬁciencies identiﬁed with respect to countering terrorism-ﬁnancing in the Action Plan, the FATF will remain concerned with the terrorist ﬁnancing risk emanating from Iran and the threat this poses to the international ﬁnancial system.
The FATF, therefore, calls on its members and urges all jurisdictions to continue to advise their ﬁnancial institutions to apply enhanced due diligence with respect to business relationships and transactions with natural and legal persons from Iran, consistent with FATF Recommendation 19, including: (1) obtaining information on the reasons for intended transactions; and (2) conducting enhanced monitoring of business relationships, by increasing the number and timing of controls applied, and selecting patterns of transactions that need further examination.
1 Countries should be able to apply appropriate countermeasures when called upon to do so by the FATF.

Countries should also be able to apply countermeasures independently of any call by the FATF to do so.

Such countermeasures should be effective and proportionate to the risks.

The Interpretative Note to Recommendation 19 speciﬁes examples of the countermeasures that could be undertaken by countries.
More on: Improving Global AML/CFT Compliance: On-going Process, 18 October 2019 Outcomes FATF Plenary, Paris, 18 October 2019 https://www.fatf-gafi.org/publications/high-risk-and-other-monitored-jurisdictions/documents/public-statement-october-2019.html Page 3 of 4 High-risk and other monitored jurisdictions 12/13/19, 12:03 PM https://www.fatf-gafi.org/publications/high-risk-and-other-monitored-jurisdictions/documents/public-statement-october-2019.html Page 4 of 4 12/13/19, 12:02 PM Improving Global AML/CFT Compliance: On-going Process - 18 October 2019 Send Print Tweet Paris, France, 18 October 2019 - As part of its ongoing review of compliance with the AML/CFT standards, the FATF identiﬁes the following jurisdictions that have strategic AML/CFT deﬁciencies for which they have developed an action plan with the FATF.
While the situations differ among each jurisdiction, each jurisdiction has provided a written high-level political commitment to address the identiﬁed deﬁciencies.

The FATF welcomes these commitments.

A number of jurisdictions have not yet been reviewed by the FATF.

The FATF continues to identify additional jurisdictions, on an ongoing basis, that pose a risk to the international ﬁnancial system.
The FATF and the FATF-style regional bodies (FSRBs) will continue to work with the jurisdictions noted below and to report on the progress made in addressing the identiﬁed deﬁciencies.

The FATF calls on these jurisdictions to complete the implementation of action plans expeditiously and within the proposed timeframes.

The FATF will closely monitor the implementation of these action plans.
The FATF does not call for the application of enhanced due diligence to be applied to these jurisdictions, but encourages its members to take into account the information presented below in its risk analysis.
Jurisdictions with strategic deﬁciencies Jurisdictions no longer subject to monitoring Ethiopia Sri Lanka Tunisia The Bahamas Botswana Cambodia Ghana Iceland Mongolia Pakistan Panama Syria https://www.fatf-gafi.org/publications/high-risk-and-other-monitored-jurisdictions/documents/fatf-compliance-october-2019.html Page 1 of 8 12/13/19, 12:02 PM Trinidad and Tobago Yemen Zimbabwe The Bahamas Since October 2018, when The Bahamas made a high-level political commitment to work with the FATF and CFATF to strengthen the effectiveness of its AML/CFT regime and address any related technical deﬁciencies, The Bahamas has taken steps towards improving its AML/CFT regime.
These include instituting a protocol and case management system to further enhance international cooperation; initiating risk-based supervision of non-bank ﬁnancial institutions; and further implementing the recent Beneﬁcial Ownership Law to ensure the timely access to adequate, accurate, and current basic and beneﬁcial ownership information.
The Bahamas should continue to work on implementing its action plan to address its strategic deﬁciencies, including by: (1) demonstrating that authorities are investigating and prosecuting all types of money laundering, including complex ML cases, stand-alone money laundering, and cases involving proceeds of foreign offences, including foreign tax crimes; and (2) increasing the identiﬁcation, tracing and freezing or restraining of assets and to present cases linked with foreign offences and stand-alone ML cases.
Botswana Since October 2018, when Botswana made a high-level political commitment to work with the FATF and ESAAMLG to strengthen the effectiveness of its AML/CFT regime and address any related technical deﬁciencies, Botswana has taken steps towards improving its AML/CFT regime, including by adopting risk-based AML/CFT supervisory manuals for ﬁnancial sector supervisors and implementing an electronic STR ﬁling system among FIs and certain types of DNFBPs.
Botswana should continue to work on implementing its action plan to address its strategic deﬁciencies, including by: (1) assessing the risks associated with legal persons, legal arrangements, and NPOs, and developing and implementing a risk-based comprehensive national AML/CFT strategy; (2) developing and implementing risk-based AML/CFT supervisory manuals; (3) improving its analysis and dissemination of ﬁnancial intelligence by the FIU, and enhancing the use of ﬁnancial intelligence among the relevant law enforcement agencies; (4) developing and implementing CFT strategy, and ensuring the TF investigation capacity of the law enforcement agencies; (5) ensuring the implementation without delay of targeted ﬁnancial sanctions measures related to terrorist ﬁnancing and proliferation ﬁnancing, and (6) applying a risk-based approach to monitoring non-proﬁt organisations.. Cambodia https://www.fatf-gafi.org/publications/high-risk-and-other-monitored-jurisdictions/documents/fatf-compliance-october-2019.html Page 2 of 8 12/13/19, 12:02 PM Since February 2019, when Cambodia made a high-level political commitment to work with the FATF and APG to strengthen the effectiveness of its AML/CFT regime and address any related technical deﬁciencies, Cambodia has taken steps towards improving its AML/CFT regime, including by initiating off-site and on-site supervision of the real estate and casino sectors.
Cambodia should continue to work on implementing its action plan to address its strategic deﬁciencies, including by: (1) providing a broad legal basis for MLA and conducting relevant training to LEAs; (2) implementing risk-based supervision for real estate and casinos; (3) implementing the risk-based supervision to banks, including through prompt, proportionate and dissuasive enforcement actions, as appropriate; (4) amending the AML/CFT Law to address the remaining technical compliance deﬁciencies; (5) conducting sector-speciﬁc outreach to casinos, real-estate and MVTS providers; (6) increasing its FIU resources; enhancing its analysis of STRs; and increasing disseminations to LEAs; (7) increasing domestic coordination and cooperation to enhance ML investigations; (8) demonstrating an increase in ML investigations and prosecutions; and providing targeted proceeds of crime conﬁscation training to all LEAs; (9) demonstrating an increase in the freezing and conﬁscation of criminal proceeds, instrumentalities, and property of equivalent value; (10) establishing the legal framework to implement UN sanctions related to PF TFS, demonstrating that implementation is occurring and enhancing the understanding of sanctions evasion.
Ghana Since October 2018, when Ghana made a high-level political commitment to work with the FATF and GIABA to strengthen the effectiveness of its AML/CFT regime, Ghana has taken steps towards improving its AML/CFT regime, including by conducting a risk assessment on legal persons, and developing a framework for adequate and effective investigation and prosecution of TF.
Ghana should continue to work on implementing its action plan to address its strategic deﬁciencies, including by: (1) implementing a comprehensive national AML/CFT Policy based on the risks identiﬁed in the NRA, including measures to mitigate ML/TF risks associated with the legal persons; (2) improving risk-based supervision, by enhancing the capacity of the regulators and the awareness of the private sector; (3) ensuring the timely access to adequate, accurate and current basic and beneﬁcial ownership information; (4) ensuring that the FIU is focusing its activities the risks identiﬁed in the NRA, and adequately resourced; and (5) applying a risk-based approach for monitoring non-proﬁt organisations.
Iceland In October 2019, Iceland made a high-level political commitment to work with the FATF to strengthen the effectiveness of its AML/CFT regime.
Since the completion of its MER in 2017, Iceland has made progress on a number of recommended actions to improve technical compliance and effectiveness, including carrying out a second national risk assessment, comprehensive outreach to deepen the understanding of relevant risks across sectors, enhancing risk based supervision in both the ﬁnancial https://www.fatf-gafi.org/publications/high-risk-and-other-monitored-jurisdictions/documents/fatf-compliance-october-2019.html Page 3 of 8 12/13/19, 12:02 PM and DNFBP sector and signiﬁcantly strengthening the capacities of investigation and law enforcement authorities.
Iceland will work to implement its action plan, by: (1) ensuring the access to accurate basic and beneﬁcial ownership information for legal persons by competent authorities in a timely manner; (2) introducing an automated system for STR ﬁling and enhancing the FIU’s capacity in its strategic and operational analysis; (3) ensuring implementation of the TFS requirements among FIs and DNFBPs through effective supervision, and enabling effective oversight and monitoring of NPOs with adequate resources and in line with the identiﬁed TF risks.
FATF noted that Iceland had already pro-actively taken steps to address these issues before the Action Plan’s formal adoption by FATF.

However, the FATF could not yet fully review these due to their very recent nature.

Mongolia In October 2019, Mongolia made a high-level political commitment to work with the FATF and APG to strengthen the effectiveness of its AML/CFT regime.
Since the completion of its MER in 2017, Mongolia has made progress on a number of its MER recommended actions to improve technical compliance and effectiveness, including by enhancing its ML and TF risk understanding, and introducing a comprehensive institutional framework to give effect to PF TFS obligations, and enhancing its TF TFS legal framework through legislative measures and guidance.
Mongolia will work to implement its action plan, including by: (1) improving sectoral ML/TF risk understanding by DNFBP supervisors, applying a risk-based approach to supervision and applying proportionate and dissuasive sanctions for breaches of AML/CFT obligations; (2) demonstrating increased investigations and prosecutions of different types of ML activity in line with identiﬁed risks; (3) demonstrating further seizure and conﬁscation of falsely/non-declared currency and applying effective, proportionate and dissuasive sanctions; (4) demonstrating cooperation and coordination between authorities to prevent sanctions evasion; and monitoring compliance by FIs and DNFBPs with their PF-related TFS obligations, including the application of proportionate and dissuasive sanctions.
Pakistan Since June 2018, when Pakistan made a high-level political commitment to work with the FATF and APG to strengthen its AML/CFT regime and to address its strategic counter-terrorist ﬁnancing-related deﬁciencies, Pakistan has made progress towards improving its AML/CFT regime, including the recent development of its ML/TF risk assessment.

At the October 2019 plenary, Pakistan reiterated its political commitment to completing its action plan and implementing AML/CFT reforms.
Pakistan should continue to work on implementing its action plan to address its strategic deﬁciencies, including by: (1) adequately demonstrating its proper understanding of the TF risks posed by the terrorist groups, and conducting supervision on a risk-sensitive basis; (2) demonstrating that remedial actions and sanctions are applied in cases of AML/CFT violations, and that these actions have an effect on AML/CFT https://www.fatf-gafi.org/publications/high-risk-and-other-monitored-jurisdictions/documents/fatf-compliance-october-2019.html Page 4 of 8 12/13/19, 12:02 PM compliance by ﬁnancial institutions; (3) demonstrating that competent authorities are cooperating and taking action to identify and take enforcement action against illegal money or value transfer services (MVTS); (4) demonstrating that authorities are identifying cash couriers and enforcing controls on illicit movement of currency; (5) improving inter-agency coordination including between provincial and federal authorities on combating TF risks; (6) demonstrating that law enforcement agencies (LEAs) are identifying and investigating the widest range of TF activity and that TF investigations and prosecutions target designated persons and entities, and those acting on behalf or at the direction of the designated persons or entities; (7) demonstrating that TF prosecutions result in effective, proportionate and dissuasive sanctions and enhancing the capacity and support for prosecutors and the judiciary; and (8) demonstrating effective implementation of targeted ﬁnancial sanctions (supported by a comprehensive legal obligation) against all 1267 and 1373 designated terrorists and those acting for or on their behalf, including preventing the raising and moving of funds, identifying and freezing assets (movable and immovable), and prohibiting access to funds and ﬁnancial services; (9) demonstrating enforcement against TFS violations including administrative and criminal penalties and provincial and federal authorities cooperating on enforcement cases; (10) demonstrating that facilities and services owned or controlled by designated person are deprived of their resources and the usage of the resources.
All deadlines in the action plan have now expired.

While noting recent improvements, the FATF again expresses serious concerns with the overall lack of progress by Pakistan to address its TF risks, including remaining deﬁciencies in demonstrating a sufﬁcient understanding of Pakistan’s transnational TF risks, and more broadly, Pakistan’s failure to complete its action plan in line with the agreed timelines and in light of the TF risks emanating from the jurisdiction.
To date, Pakistan has only largely addressed ﬁve of 27 action items, with varying levels of progress made on the rest of the action plan.

The FATF strongly urges Pakistan to swiftly complete its full action plan by February 2020.
Otherwise, should signiﬁcant and sustainable progress not be made across the full range of its action plan by the next Plenary, the FATF will take action, which could include the FATF calling on its members and urging all jurisdictions to advise their FIs to give special attention to business relations and transactions with Pakistan.
Panama Since June 2019, when Panama made a high-level political commitment to work with the FATF and GAFILAT to strengthen the effectiveness of its AML/CFT regime, Panama has taken initial steps towards improving its AML/CFT regime, including by drafting sectoral risk assessments for the corporate and DNFBP sectors and free trade zones.
Panama should continue to work on implementing its action plan to address its strategic deﬁciencies, including by: (1) strengthening its understanding of the national and sectoral ML/TF risk and informing ﬁndings to its national policies to mitigated the identiﬁed risks; (2) proactively taking action to identify unlicensed money remitters, applying a risk- https://www.fatf-gafi.org/publications/high-risk-and-other-monitored-jurisdictions/documents/fatf-compliance-october-2019.html Page 5 of 8 12/13/19, 12:02 PM based approach to supervision of the DNFBP sector and ensuring effective, proportionate, and dissuasive sanctions again AML/CFT violations; (3); ensuring adequate veriﬁcation and update of beneﬁcial ownership information by obliged entities, establishing an effective mechanisms to monitor the activities of offshore entities, assessing the existing risks of misuse of legal persons and arrangements to deﬁne and implement speciﬁc measures to prevent the misuse of nominee shareholders and directors, and ensuring timely access to adequate and accurate beneﬁcial ownership information; and (4) ensuring effective use of FIU products for ML investigations, demonstrating its ability to investigate and prosecute ML involving foreign tax crimes and to provide constructive and timely international cooperation with such offence, and continuing to focus on ML investigations in relation to high-risk areas identiﬁed in the NRA and MER.
Syria Since February 2010, when Syria made a high-level political commitment to work with the FATF and MENAFATF to address its strategic AML/CFT deﬁciencies, Syria has made progress to improve its AML/CFT regime.

In June 2014, the FATF determined that Syria had substantially addressed its action plan at a technical level, including by criminalising terrorist ﬁnancing and establishing procedures for freezing terrorist assets.
While the FATF determined that Syria has completed its agreed action plan, due to the security situation, the FATF has been unable to conduct an on-site visit to conﬁrm whether the process of implementing the required reforms and actions has begun and is being sustained.

The FATF will continue to monitor the situation, and will conduct an on-site visit at the earliest possible date.
Trinidad and Tobago In November 2017, Trinidad and Tobago made a high-level political commitment to work with the FATF and CFATF to strengthen the effectiveness of its AML/CFT regime and address any related technical deﬁciencies.
The FATF has made the initial determination that Trinidad and Tobago has substantially completed its action plan and warrants an on-site assessment to verify that the implementation of Trinidad and Tobago’s AML/CFT reforms has begun and is being sustained, and that the necessary political commitment remains in place to sustain implementation in the future.
Speciﬁcally, Trinidad and Tobago has made the following key reforms: (1) adopting and implementing the relevant measures to enhance international cooperation; (2) addressing measures for transparency and beneﬁcial ownership; (3) completing the legislative efforts to enhance the processing of ML charges before the courts; (4) taking measures to enhance tracing and conﬁscation of criminal assets; (5) enforcing TF measures and adopting appropriate measures for NPOs; (6) enacting the necessary amendments related to targeted ﬁnancial sanctions; and (7) developing, adopting, and implementing the necessary framework to counter proliferation ﬁnancing.
Yemen https://www.fatf-gafi.org/publications/high-risk-and-other-monitored-jurisdictions/documents/fatf-compliance-october-2019.html Page 6 of 8 12/13/19, 12:02 PM Since February 2010, when Yemen made a high-level political commitment to work with the FATF and MENAFATF to address its strategic AML/CFT deﬁciencies, Yemen has made progress to improve its AML/CFT regime.
In June 2014, the FATF determined that Yemen had substantially addressed its action plan at a technical level, including by: (1) adequately criminalising money laundering and terrorist ﬁnancing; (2) establishing procedures to identify and freeze terrorist assets; (3) improving its customer due diligence and suspicious transaction reporting requirements; (4) issuing guidance; (5) developing the monitoring and supervisory capacity of the ﬁnancial sector supervisory authorities and the ﬁnancial intelligence unit; and (6) establishing a fully operational and effectively functioning ﬁnancial intelligence unit.
While the FATF determined that Yemen has completed its agreed action plan, due to the security situation, the FATF has been unable to conduct an on-site visit to conﬁrm whether the process of implementing the required reforms and actions has begun and is being sustained.

The FATF will continue to monitor the situation, and conduct an on-site visit at the earliest possible date.
Zimbabwe In October 2019, Zimbabwe made a high-level political commitment to work with the FATF and ESAAMLG to strengthen the effectiveness of its AML/CFT regime.
Since the completion of its MER in 2016, Zimbabwe has made progress on a number of its MER recommended actions to improve technical compliance and effectiveness, including establishing a national coordination and cooperation structure on AML/CFT issues, amending the AML/CFT legal framework to apply a risk-based approach to supervision of FIs and DNFBPs, widening the scope of disseminating ﬁnancial intelligence, and establishing an asset forfeiture unit within the National Prosecuting Authority.
Zimbabwe will work to implement its action plan, including by: (1) improving understanding of the key ML/TF risks among the relevant stakeholders and implementing the national AML/CFT policy base on the identiﬁed risks; (2) implementing risk-based supervision for FIs and DNFBPs including through capacity building among the supervisory authority; (3) ensuring development of adequate risk mitigation measures among FIs and DNFBPs, including by applying proportionate and dissuasive sanctions to breaches; (4) developing a comprehensive legal framework and mechanism to collect and maintain accurate and updated beneﬁcial ownership information for legal persons and arrangements, and ensure timey assess by the competent authorities; and (5) addressing remaining gaps in the TF- and PF-related TFS frameworks and demonstrating implementation.
Jurisdictions No Longer Subject to the FATF's On-Going Global AML/CFT Compliance Process Ethiopia The FATF welcomes Ethiopia's signiﬁcant progress in improving its AML/CFT regime and notes that Ethiopia has strengthened the effectiveness of its AML/CFT regime and addressed related technical deﬁciencies to meet the commitments in its action plan regarding the strategic deﬁciencies that the https://www.fatf-gafi.org/publications/high-risk-and-other-monitored-jurisdictions/documents/fatf-compliance-october-2019.html Page 7 of 8 12/13/19, 12:02 PM FATF identiﬁed in February 2017.
Ethiopia is therefore no longer subject to the FATF's monitoring process under its ongoing global AML/CFT compliance process.

Ethiopia will continue to work with ESAAMLG to improve further its AML/CFT regime.
Sri Lanka The FATF welcomes Sri Lanka's signiﬁcant progress in improving its AML/CFT regime and notes that Sri Lanka has strengthened the effectiveness of its AML/CFT regime and addressed related technical deﬁciencies to meet the commitments in its action plan regarding the strategic deﬁciencies that the FATF identiﬁed in November 2017.

Sri Lanka is therefore no longer subject to the FATF’s monitoring process under its ongoing global AML/CFT compliance process.
Sri Lanka will continue to work with APG to improve further its AML/CFT regime.

Tunisia The FATF welcomes Tunisia's signiﬁcant progress in improving its AML/CFT regime and notes that Tunisia has strengthened the effectiveness of its AML/CFT regime and addressed related technical deﬁciencies to meet the commitments in its action plan regarding the strategic deﬁciencies that the FATF identiﬁed in November 2017.
Tunisia is therefore no longer subject to the FATF's monitoring process under its ongoing global AML/CFT compliance process.

Tunisia will continue to work with MENAFATF to improve further its AML/CFT regime.
More on: Public Statement, 18 October 2019 Outcomes FATF Plenary, Paris, 18 October 2019 High-risk and other monitored jurisdictions https://www.fatf-gafi.org/publications/high-risk-and-other-monitored-jurisdictions/documents/fatf-compliance-october-2019.html Page 8 of 8 CFATF Public Statement on Sint Maarten at L Plenary St. Johns, Antigua and Barbuda, November 27th,2019 12/3/19, 5)26 AM Recent Public Statement !
(/cfatf- documents/cfatf- public- statements/9679- public- statement-and- notice-of-exiting- the-follow-up- process-may- 2018) Public Statem ent and Notice of exiting the Follow -up proces s May 2018 (/cfatf- docum ents/cf atf- public- statem ents/9 679- public- statem ent- and- notice- of- exiting -the- follow- up- proces s-may- 2018) Popular CFATF Public Statement on Sint Maarten at L Plenary St. Johns, Antigua and Barbuda, November 27th,2019 The Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) is an organisation of twenty-ﬁve jurisdictions of the Caribbean Basin Region, which have agreed to implement the international standards on Combatting Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism & Proliferation (The FATF Recommendations).
In order to protect the international ﬁnancial system from money laundering and ﬁnancing of terrorism (ML/FT) risks and to encourage greater compliance with the AML/CFT standards, the CFATF identiﬁes jurisdictions that have strategic deﬁciencies and works with them to address those deﬁciencies that pose a risk to the international ﬁnancial system.

Jurisdictions with strategic AML/CFT deﬁciencies that has not made suﬃcient progress in addressing the deﬁciencies.
The CFATF calls on its members to consider the risks arising from the deﬁciencies associated with the jurisdiction, as described below.

Sint Maarten The CFATF recognizes the progress made by Sint Maarten to date in addressing the deﬁciencies identiﬁed in its Mutual Evaluation Report.
However, the CFATF is concerned by Sint Maarten's failure to address remaining deﬁciencies in its anti-money laundering and combating the ﬁnancing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regime after the High-Level Mission that visited the country on August 24th, 2018 and the Plenary's requirement to overcome such deﬁciencies by February 2019, which has not been achieved as veriﬁed at the CFATF May and November 2019 Plenary meetings.
The CFATF urges Sint Maarten to immediately address its AML/CFT deﬁciencies including bringing the necessary outstanding legislation into force and eﬀect.

In the event of failure to act on this requirement, the CFATF may call its member jurisdiction to apply countermeasures on the country as set out in the procedures for the third stage of Enhanced Follow-Up, which entails the application of Rec.
21 of the FATF Standards of 2003, in order to protect their ﬁnancial systems from the ongoing ML and TF risks emanating from Sint Maarten.

The CFATF LI Plenary will review if additional progress has been made by Sint Maarten.

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