Tunisia removed from FATF blacklist

Source: Xinhua| 2019-10-18 23:55:01|Editor: Mu Xuequan
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TUNIS, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) officially decided to remove Tunisia from its blacklist, Tunisia's Prime Minister Youssef Chahed announced in a tweet on Friday.

"FATF, during a meeting held in Paris on Oct. 16-18, considered that the Tunisian government has honored its commitments in the fight against money laundering and terrorism financing," said Chahed.

The Tunisian Committee of Financial Analysis affiliated to the Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT), in a statement posted Friday on its website, confirmed that FATF General Assembly took the decision following a report submitted by its delegation at the end of a visit to Tunisia on Sept. 16-17, 2019.

"The delegation stressed the remarkable progress made by Tunisia in addressing shortcomings in facing up to money laundering and terrorism financing," said the statement.

The European Parliament had included Tunisia in 2017 to the European blacklist of countries to be at high risk of money laundering and terrorism financing.

The FATF, an intergovernmental organization founded in 1989, aims at combating global money laundering and terrorist financing.

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