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PortuguêsCOUNTRY OF THE MONTH : GUINEA BISSAU
The Egmont Group is a “club” of 167 Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs). It provides a platform for the secure exchange of financial expertise and information to combat money laundering and terrorist financing (ML-FT).
In the region covered by the OCWAR-M project, six FIUs are not yet members of the Egmont Group, including the FIU of Guinea-Bissau. This country, like the other five non-member countries, wishes to join the Egmont Group to benefit from its activities and secure exchange platform.
FEATURED
AWARENESS-RAISING FOR THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SENEGALESE GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF TAXES AND DOMAINS
OCWAR-M is working with the Senegalese General Directorate of Taxes and Domains (“Direction Générale des Impôts et des Domaines” – DGID) : this administration has the particularity of being both subject to AML-CFT obligations and a supervisory authority for accountants.
Since June 2021, more than a hundred representatives of the DGID have benefited from awareness-raising sessions. Those sessions dealt with the compliance obligations defined by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the role of this administration as a supervisory authority. In this video, Mr. Cheikh Hady Dieye, Director of Intelligence and Tax Control Strategies at the DGID, tells us more about the support provided by OCWAR-M.
EXPERT PORTRAIT
The OCWAR-M project works with a large network of experts. In this 12th edition of our newsletter,
We are launching a new section, in which we will present these experts. This month, we give the floor to four experts who contributed to our activity on the strengthening of the AML-CFT criminal chain in French and Portuguese speaking countries. Serge Tournaire and Francis Mardonao, experts from the French National School of Magistrates, and Cheikh Bamba Niang and Mamadou Thiandoum, West African regional experts, specifically worked on the seizure and confiscation of criminal assets.
PROJECT NEWS
From 20 to 22 September, the workshop on the links between money laundering, terrorist financing and cybercrime was held in Abidjan under the aegis of GIABA. OCWAR-M participated in this workshop alongside the OCWAR-C project, the West African response to Cybercrime, also implemented by Expertise France and funded by the European Union.
PRESS REVIEW
ABOUT OCWAR-M
Abidjan abrite des réflexions sur la cybersécurité dans l’espace CEDEAO (Abidjan.net, 28/09/2021)
AFRICA
Nigeria : ‘Beneficial ownership register vital in anti-corruption campaign’ (Guardian, 19/09/2021)
GIABA Commences Training On Cross-Border Cash Smuggling (Daily Trust, 22/09/2021)
INTERNATIONAL
Côte d’Ivoire : Govt cracks down on corruption (Agence Ecofin, 16/09/2021)
Burkina Faso : démantèlement d’un vaste réseau de fraude sur le carburant (RFI, 23/09/2021)
