Iraq’s sixth globally in money laundering
Iraq’s sixth globally in money laundering
02-09-2014 04:59 PM
A report issued by the Institute of Government in Basel, Switzerland, that Iraq is ranked sixth in the world in terms of highest risk in the fight against money laundering, adding that the nations of the world to lower the risk of money laundering, including Finland and Estonia.
The institute said in a report published on its website that ‘Iraq ranked sixth in the world in the highest risk AML as the highest country risk’, adding that ‘these countries included the countries of Iran, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Tajikistan, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Mali, Swaziland, Mozambique, Myanmar ‘.
And included a report by the Institute of 19 Arab countries were 10 of them above average, including Kuwait, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates while came Iraq, Sudan and Yemen in the top three the last, has been ranked among the twenty state of the most vulnerable in the world, where the report included 162 countries.
He added that the institute ‘six African countries were the biggest risk in the fight against money laundering among the countries of Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Swaziland and Uganda’, noting that ‘less countries of the world to the dangers of money laundering, including Finland and Estonia’.
It is noteworthy that the frequency of the accusations mounted about the smuggling of currency, which has cast a shadow on the sale price of the dollar in the local markets and led to an increased rate of exchange a few months ago, while lawmakers have demanded the need to take the initiative on the government to stop selling the currency at auctions the central bank, others stressed that Iraq is losing big money due to smuggled daily out of the border, despite the praise of many specialists in economic affairs on the positives of the auction to reduce the rates of inflation and to control the value of the Iraqi dinar.
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