ECONOMY - FINANCE / Money laundering

Publication of new list of 23 third countries at high risk of money laundering

Brussels, 13/02/2019 (Agence Europe)

On Wednesday 13 February, the European Commission adopted a new list of 23 third countries whose anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing arrangements are deficient and threaten the European financial system. 

So far, 16 countries have been on the list. In 2016, the European Commission published a first list (see EUROPE 11594), which included 11 countries (North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Guyana, Iraq, Laos, Syria, Uganda, Vanuatu, Yemen). It made several...