Tue Aug 25 2015 23:06 | (Voice of Iraq) - Baghdad
According to a member of the Finance Committee in Parliament MP Haitham al-Jubouri, Tuesday, that the Supreme parliamentary Anti-Corruption Commission will hold an important meeting tomorrow to develop appropriate and "deterrent" to stop the laundering and the financing laundering "mechanisms of terrorism", as pointed out that delay the adoption of anti-money laundering law presents the Iraqi state to enter into a "black list".
Jubouri said that "the Supreme parliamentary committee to combat money laundering will hold an important meeting tomorrow, will be at the meeting to host the Governor of the Central Bank and the Director of the Office of money laundering at the bank and the official file in the Iraqi Intelligence Service and general manager of exhibitions and import and export."
"The purpose of the meeting is to develop and deterrent to stop money laundering and terrorism financing operations appropriate mechanisms".
He said al-Jubouri, "will also be discussed anti-money laundering law and the need to speed up the inclusion of all the notes for the enactment of the law," noting that "the House of Representatives ended today, the first reading of the law against money laundering."
Jubouri and stressed that "the delay in approving the Anti-Money Laundering Law presents the Iraqi state to enter the blacklist, which includes Iran and North Korea as enamel Organization standards FATF specialized international fight against money laundering."
It is said that the Council of Ministers approved on Tuesday (June 30, 2015), on the draft anti-money laundering and the financing of "terrorism" law.
And money laundering is the recycling of funds generated by illegal actions in the areas of channels and invest legitimacy to hide the true source of these funds and look as if they had been generated from a legitimate source Examples of such unlawful acts (funds generated by the drug trade - slave - prostitution - weapons). [/ltr]
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