03/13/2008
Havens for Tax Evasion
The New York Times has this week published a letter from Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney.
"The economically developed countries need to impose severe sanctions on the tax havens and those who use them to unfair advantage. As recent history confirms, totally unsupervised markets will eventually have serious problems, with ripple effects for markets worldwide"
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03/09/2008
Guidance on Capacity building for Mutual Evaluations and Implementation of the FATF Standards Within Low Capacity Countries
The FATF recently published a brochure to support low capacity countries (LCCs) in implementing the FATF standards in a manner reflecting their national institutional systems in a way that is consistent with the ML/FT risks they face and that take into account their limited resources.
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The FATF welcomes the recent progress in policies and practices
The FATF welcomes the recent progress in policies and practices to combat money laundering and terrorist financing in the northern part of Cyprus. However, given the existing deficiencies, the FATF calls on its members and urges all jurisdictions to advise their financial institutions to pay special attention to the ML/FT risks in transactions with financial institutions operating in the northern part of Cyprus. The FATF encourages further progress to address the deficiencies.
Source : FATF
05:55 Posted in Cyprius | Permalink | Comments (0)