Luanda - The International Financial Action Task Force (FATF)’s assessment on Angola next June, aimed to build trust of the country’s financial system abroad, is among the priorities of the Financial Information Unit (FIU).
FIU’s manager, Gilberto Capeça, said the first step will focus on analysing and correcting any gaps in this process.
According to him, the move will help achieve positive results in the evaluation that will be carried out by a group of international experts, who are expected in Angola in the first half of June.
The assessment is mainly intended to analyse the fulfillment degree of the implementation of what FATF recommended in 2012, when the country
joined the East and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Group (Esaalmg).
The evaluation will cover several institutions, with stress to banking sector.
Angola will have to prove that it complied with 40 previous recommendations, in addition to some issues included in the 500-page process submitted by the Financial Information Unit in 2021.
Speaking to the press, after swearing in as FIU director general, Gilberto Capeça pledged commitment to permanent fight against corruption, money laundering and terrorism financing, among the priorities.
Of the list, the manager spoke of fighting against the proliferation of mass destruction weapons.
In turn, the minister of State for Economic Coordination, Manuel Nunes Júnior, described the FIU as instrumental in retrieving the trust and finance safety of the country.
