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Financial sector supervisors, financial intelligence unit (FIU) officials, criminal justice officials and officials engaged in AML/CFT legislation and policy making from countries belonging to FATF-style regional bodies (FSRBs) that will be assessed during the FSRB's current round of mutual evaluations. Recipient countries will be asked to nominate officials from the agencies responsible for the organization of the AML/CFT onsite assessment process.
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Attendance is by invitation only. Prerequisites are specified in invitation letters.
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These one-week workshops, presented by the IMF's Legal Department, aim to enhance and strengthen the recipient countries' capacity to prepare for AML/CFT assessments and carry out measures to ensure an effective and efficient assessment process.
Participants will gain a better understanding of the requirements for implementing an effective AML/CFT framework focussing on measures to strengthen preventatives measures and the related supervisory framework, the financial intelligence unit, and the investigation and prosecution of ML/TF. The course will focus on developing an understanding of the use of the mutual evaluation process as a means to progress implementation of the AML/CFT framework, together with addressing timelines, processes, practical/logistical issues and the central role of the coordinator in ensuring an effective and efficient evaluation process. A draft plan will be developed for coordinating all relevant agencies in preparing the detailed assessment questionnaire, preparing for the as onsite assessment and the post-assessment discussion of the draft report.
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