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Insajder website: Serbia still on FATF blacklist
Serbia remains a risk to the international financial system and is still on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) blacklist, despite assurances by Serbia’s authorities that all FATF recommendations had been honoured, the Insajder website reported on Wednesday.
Belgrade appeared on the list first time in February and remained there after the FATF revisions in June and this month.
Iraq and Vanuatu have been >> Pročitaj celu vest na sajtu N1 televizija << taken off the list, while Ethiopia, Ghana, Syria and Pakistan are still there together with Serbia and some other countries.
The FATF report about the progress following its recommendations on preventing money laundering and financing terrorism said that Serbia made an advance, but that not all strategic deficiencies had been removed, Insajder.net reported.
The report said that Serbia should start implementing the mechanisms to prevent those crimes and prove that sanctions were taken against the perpetrators.
Serbia made progress in presenting “the national risk assessment”, and in demonstrating the implementation of the rules for starting money laundering procedures, the latest FATF report said.
In its June note, the FATF said that Serbia failed to implement the previous report recommendations concerning “better scrutiny over the lawyers, the necessity of putting under surveillance certain exposed individuals and the electronic money transfer" as required by the FATF.
In the meantime, Serbia has adopted several changes to the laws regulating these areas, but that was not enough for the FATF to take Belgrade off the list.
Insajder reported that Serbia’s Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said back in spring that the FATF February report that put Serbia on the blacklist was politically motivated and that the US insisted on having Belgrade on the list.
The National Bank of Serbia (NBS) Governor Jorgovanka Tabakovic, however, said that the problem was that Serbia was late in filing criminal charges for abuse of office and money laundering in some criminal cases.
