The Central Bank holds a workshop for the Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Council
The Central Bank holds a workshop for the Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Council
May 12, 2023
On Thursday, May 11, 2023, the Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Office, in cooperation with the Central Bank of Iraq, held a workshop entitled (Due Diligence Controls for Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing of Real Estate Registration Departments No. 1 of 2022), which aims to activate the mechanism of buying and selling real estate by Through the banking sector at the headquarters of the Central Bank of Iraq, where representatives of the departments of the Central Bank of Iraq and the Office of Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing participated in it, and the official presence of government banks, officials in the Real Estate Registration Department, authorized managers of private banks, and officials of the departments reporting suspicions of money laundering and terrorist financing and compliance departments in private banks.
The workshop sought to create cooperation between the real estate registration departments and all licensed banks for the purpose of reducing the risks of this sector, limiting money laundering and terrorist financing operations, applying controls and facilitating implementation procedures, as well as the mechanism of buying and selling real estate that will be approved by banks and under the supervision of the Central Bank of Iraq, and stressing the importance of The role of all parties in strengthening measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.
The workshop demonstrated the importance of implementing the action plan contained in the National Risk Assessment Report, each according to its competence, and its importance in reflecting the efforts of the Republic of Iraq during the mutual evaluation process.
Central Bank of Iraq
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