MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines is hopeful of being taken off the cash laundering ‘gray listing’ of the Monetary Motion Activity Power (FATF) of this 12 months, the nation’s Anti-Cash Laundering Council mentioned on Tuesday.
The FATF, an intergovernmental organisation combating cash laundering and terrorism financing, added the Philippines to the listing in June 2021 for a number of causes, together with threat of cash laundering from on line casino junkets and lack of prosecution for terrorism funding circumstances.
The Philippines has but to deal with a number of points flagged by the FATF, Govt Director of the Anti-Cash Laundering Council, Matthew David, advised a presidential palace press convention.
“Essentially the most difficult motion merchandise is terrorism financing prosecution. We have to file extra terrorism financing circumstances,” he mentioned.
The longer the Philippines is on the gray listing, the upper likelihood it has of being downgraded to the black listing, David mentioned.
Being blacklisted by the FATF may end in extra stringent necessities and better transaction prices for hundreds of thousands of Filipinos dwelling and dealing overseas who ship billions of {dollars} to the Philippines in remittances.
(Reporting by Neil Jerome Morales; Enhancing by Kanupriya Kapoor)
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