FATF passes NCCT list to World Bank and IMF

VIENNA – The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has passed on responsibility for its list of Non-co-operative countries and territories (NCCT) to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. The shift comes amid charges that politics was playing too great a role in the naming and shaming of nations that would not comply with the FATF’s anti-money laundering and terrorist financing recommendations.

The countries on the last list – published during the FATF’s plenary in July – included the Cook Islands, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nauru, Nigeria and the Philippines.

Muhammad Baasiri, secretary of the Special Investigation Commission for fighting money laundering in Lebanon, said at an AML conference in late September in Vienna that he had heard from people in the "world organisations" involved in assessing countries for their AML compliance that countries that would have qualified for the NCCT list

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