On 27 November, at 10 a.m., a consultation meeting on anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism was held in Yangon, Myanmar, at the Merchants and Industry/Handicraft Association Meeting Centre on Zosui Road, Minye. At the meeting, Dudan Danwe, chairman of the central bank, who is also chairman of the anti-money laundering and counter-financing of terrorism team, delivered a speech.
After that, the Vice Chairman of the Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism Unit, the Vice Chairman of the Central Bank, the Chairman of the Myanmar Merchants and Industrial/Handicraft Association, the head of the Financial Supervision and Investigation Group, the police superintendent Miao Du So, and the head of the Myanmar Banking Association explained and discussed the harm caused by money laundering and terrorist financing.
According to the news, at this meeting, the relevant regulatory departments gave detailed explanations to the heads of administrative departments at all levels, businessmen and heads of various economic projects present on the results of field investigation and off-site information research work.
According to the relevant person in charge, since it was included in the anti-money laundering blacklist (high-risk countries) by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global international standard setting body for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing, the Myanmar authorities are establishing a sound financial mechanism and striving to remove it from the FATF list.
On October 21, Myanmar was placed on the FATF's anti-money laundering blacklist (high-risk countries), which the FATF said was blacklisted because of shortcomings in Myanmar's anti-money laundering supervision. Anti-money laundering is one of the topics that all countries in the world attach importance to, in order to legalize the domestic foreign exchange industry, the central bank has repeatedly issued relevant statements instructing domestic banks to establish a sound anti-money laundering mechanism.