Malta has ended its year-long purgatory as a ‘greylist’ financial jurisdiction of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) the global AML and anti-terrorist financing watchdog of the G7. The Times of Malta outlined that the FATF had made the decision to remove Malta from its list of countries under ‘increased monitoring’ and classified as financially untrustworthy. According to the Times, …
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Malta placed on FATF rogue list following litany of AML discrepancies
Malta has been placed on a greylist of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) – the global AML and anti terrorist financing unit of the G7. The EU member state has previously faced international criticism regarding issues such as the Panama Papers scandal, which saw Maltese government figures implicated in establishing offshore companies encountered little legal action, as well as …
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