COUNTRY OF THE MONTH : SENEGAL

In this issue, we focus on Côte d’Ivoire!     Mr. Romain Ouattara, coordinator of the mutual evaluation currently conducted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in this country, talks about the evolution of the Ivorian AML/CFT criminal chain over the last few years and presents the support provided by OCWAR-M.       The institutions of the AML/CFT criminal chain...

 
In this interview with Mohammed Ahmed, Chief of Staff to the Director General of Nigeria’s Financial Intelligence Unit, discover the composition and functioning of Nigeria’s National Coordination Committee. Mr. Ahmed talks about the work of the NCC, the challenges it faces and the importance of the regional workshop jointly organized by OCWAR-M and GIABA.

In this edition, Mr. Justino SA, President of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of Guinea-Bissau, presents the money laundering and terrorist financing risks specific to his country, and the work undertaken by his FIU to tackle them. He also talks about OCWAR-M’s support for the FIU’s application to join the Egmont Group.  Can you tell us about the ML/FT risks in Guinea-Bissau and...

This month, Mr. Mor Ndiaye, Managing Director of the recently created National Criminal Assets Recovery Office (ONRAC) of Senegal, tells us more about this institution which has a key role to play in the Senegalese AML/CFT system. In July 2021, Senegal created a National Office for the Recovery of Criminal Assets (ONRAC), which you are managing: can you explain the role and missions of this...

Watch the interview of Maître Siaka NIAMBA, President of the Burkina Faso Bar