In a statement published on Thursday 18 April at the biennial meeting of ministers from the member countries of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in Washington, they reaffirmed their unwavering commitment to the fight against financial crime.

Les ministres des pays membres du GAFI fully support the Group as a global standard-setting body for the prevention and fight against money laundering, terrorist financing, and financing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. According to the Singaporean T. Raja Kumar, president of the FATF, “depriving criminals of their ill-gotten assets is essential to fight the scourge of money laundering and financial crime.” They committed themselves to rapidly addressing this scourge and believed that additional efforts were needed in the areas of surveillance and preventive measures, transparency of beneficial owners, and the investigation and prosecution of money laundering and the confiscation of the proceeds of crime