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Pradeep Kumar

22/10/21 10:30 AM IST

Turkey placed on FATF grey list

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Financial Action Task Force (FATF) placed Turkey on its grey list for failing to check terror financing and retained Pakistan as well.

Highlights
  • Overall, three countries were added to the grey list this time- Jordan, Mali and Turkey. 
  • Pakistan will remain on the grey list till it addresses all items on the original action plan agreed to in June 2018 along with all items on a parallel action plan handed out by the watchdog's regional partner - the Asia Pacific Group (APG) - in 2019.
  • Two countries- Botswana and Mauritius were removed from the grey list after both the nations showed high-level commitment to implement reforms to improve their anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism finances.
Financial Action Task Force
  • The Financial Action Task Force was set up in 1989, during the G7 Summit in Paris, as an inter-governmental body. 
  • The task force aims to set international standards for combating money laundering and terror financing. 
  • The FATF Plenary is the main decision-making body of the Financial Action Task Force. 
  • The Financial Action Task Force comprises over 39 member countries including India. 
Source: The Hindu

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