Association of Banks keen on promoting national expertise to combat money laundering and terrorist financing

Association of Banks keen on promoting national expertise to combat money laundering and terrorist financing



Participants cycle of anti-money laundering

Author: MJM
Editor: BK

11/20/2016 18:03



Long-Presse / Baghdad

Confirmed Association of private banks, on Sunday, their interest in strengthening the banking staffs experienced the subject of compliance and anti-money laundering and terrorist financing, while the central bank called on banks to increase the interest in this vital area in an effort to dry up the sources of terrorist financing, and stressed the US Treasury on the importance of protecting banks from "slipping" money laundering.

This came during the closing ceremony held by the "Association of private banks" Today, at the conclusion of specialized training course to "money laundering and financing of terrorism", in the headquarters district of Karrada, central Baghdad, and attended (range Press).

The executive director of the Association of private banks, the vacationer, in an interview to the (long-Presse), "The association focused on the establishment of a training course and give trainees a certificate specialist anti-money laundering and terrorist financing," noting that "more than 57 trainees from different banks participated session."

He promised Khsaf, that such "important sessions to create a banking Angels armed with information adequately on the subject of compliance and anti-money laundering and terrorist financing," noting that it comes "within the Iraqi Central Bank orientations to build real units and sort of suspicious transactions and dry up the sources of terrorist financing through the correct banking transactions within the legal regulations. "

Meanwhile, a general manager of the banking and credit of the Central Bank of Iraq, Ihsan Shomran Yasiri, in an interview to the (long-Presse), said that "one session of important practices in the field of money laundering for the preparation of cadres specialized in this field," revealed, hoping to be "Subscribers real nucleus of the training and development of the banking cadres and create a base of specialized anti-money laundering and strengthen the banks and interest in this area. "

For his part, representative of the US Treasury Department in Iraq, John Sullivan, said in an interview Alai (range Press), "The testimonies provided to the trainees is one of the oldest in the world and the experience they have gained to contribute to the protection of their banks from slipping in the phenomenon of money laundering," revealing " Association of banks ready to organize the Forum of compliance and anti-money laundering and terrorist financing, to promote tendencies Central Bank in this regard. "

Little N. laundering or money laundering, economic crime aims to legitimize illegal to taboo funds, for the purpose of acquisition, disposition or management or saved, replace, or deposit, investment, transfer, transfer or manipulation of their value if the result of crimes such as the cultivation and manufacture of narcotic or plants gems and substance abuse, retrieve, export and trafficking, and the abduction and transportation, and the detention of persons and the crimes of terrorism and its financing, and fraud and breach of trust, fraud, fraud, and immorality, prostitution, trafficking and smuggling of antiquities, and felonies and misdemeanors harmful to state security on the one hand the outside and inside, bribery, misappropriation of public money and aggression, and treachery, crimes Zaov coins and counterfeit and forgery.

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