<span class="fontstyle2">blancification of capital and terrorist financing (AML/CFT) have taken
participates in a workshop on the application of the new law dedicated to this form of crime, noted the APS,
Tuesday, in Thiès (west).
Magistrates, police officers, gendarmes, bankers and heads of
Civil society participated in this meeting organized by the National Information Processing Unit
financial (CENTIF).
The work focused on the place of CENTIF in the national system to combat blanchiment de
capital and the financing of terrorism.
Discussions also revolved around the implementation of taxable persons' obligations in relation to
of AML/FT.
The role of the Coordinating Committee for Actions against <span class="fontstyle2">blancification ofcapital and financing
of terrorism was addressed.
"Practical cases" of blanchiment of capital and terrorist financing were presented by the
CENTIF.
The National Financial Information Processing Unit holds workshops in several cities across the country
since mid-June, as part of a national awareness campaign on AML/CFT.
The purpose of CENTIF, according to its president, Ramatoulaye Gadio Agne, is to help those subject to the
> blanchiment of capital and terrorist financing to "bring itself up to standards
international".
These taxable persons include banks, stock exchange companies, insurance companies and foreign exchange dealers.
It also includes legal and accounting professionals (lawyers, notaries, accountants and
tax specialists), real estate companies, actors in the trade in works of art and actors of the world
sports.
According to Modou Fall Kane, an analyst at CENTIF, Senegal's new AML/CFT law, which dates from February
2018, was developed on the basis of a recommendation of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a body
intergovernmental dedicated to this issue.
It grants "an extended right of communication" to CENTIF, he says. In other words, this law expands the
prerogatives of the state unit responsible for financial information.
The law provides "enormously" opportunities for CENTIF to collaborate with judicial authorities,
tax and customs administration and other sectors of activity, according to Ramatoulaye Gadio Agne.
"This collaboration is well supervised, to comply with the obligation of confidentiality and disclosure"
financial information, according to the blanchiment of capital and the financing of the
terrorism.