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Participants at workshop on
National AML/CFT Strategy for Gambia which officials say will be a driving force for
deepening the country's AML/CFT system (Photo: MSJoof/GNJAML)
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By Modou S. Joof
The director
general of the Inter-governmental action group against money laundering in West
Africa (GIABA), Adama Coulibaly, has advised The Gambia to “quickly finalise”
its national anti-money laundering and counter-financing terrorism (AML/CFT) strategy.
Gambia has
chosen to develop a national strategy that will serve as a driving force for
deepening of its AML/CFT system.
In a statement
read on his behalf during an April 1-3 “stakeholders workshop to develop the strategy”
at a local hotel in Kololi, The Gambia, Mr Coulibaly said the timing is
auspicious as the second round of evaluations for GIABA member states is set to
begin in the last quarter of 2015.
