While Ghana is ejected from the grey list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), 4 new countries are included. These are : Haiti, Malta, the Philippines and South Sudan.

The FATF announced on Friday that it had placed Haiti, Malta, the Philippines and South Sudan on the "grey" list of countries under increased scrutiny, following its plenary assembly. The FATF has also removed Ghana from this "grey" list of countries that do not do enough against money laundering, the financing of terrorism or the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The FATF congratulated Ghana which "had been placed on a grey list in 2018 and has made a lot of efforts to improve its controls", according to Marcus Pleyer. According to a statement from this intergovernmental body that brings together 37 states, the European Commission and the Gulf Cooperation Council, when a jurisdiction is placed under increased surveillance, it means that the country is committed to quickly resolving the strategic shortcomings identified within a set time frame and may be subject to controls. Additional.

In addition, the FATF considered that both Mauritius and Botswana had "largely completed their action plans at the technical level" and should soon receive FATF teams who will check "as soon as possible" on the ground the progress made. A total of 22 countries are now under enhanced surveillance, up from 19 when the list was previously updated in February.