Financial Action Task Force to meet in South Africa

OECD - Paris, 9 February 2006

Financial Action Task Force to meet in South Africa

Cape Town International Convention Centre
13 – 17 February, 2006

The Financial Action Task Force, the leading anti-money laundering body, will meet next week in Cape Town, South Africa. Under this year’s South African presidency of the Task Force, participants from FATF member countries will discuss methods to combat international money laundering and the financing of terrorism, and African responses to these issues.

The President of the FATF, Kader Asmal, and its executive secretary, Alain Damais, will brief journalists on the outcome of the Plenary and FATF’s ongoing work on terrorist financing, money laundering and their link to corruption. The briefing will take place at 1:30 pm on Thursday 16 February in the Cape Town International Convention Centre. For further information, journalists are invited to contact Helen Fisher, OECD's Media Division (mailto:helen.fisher@oecd.org)

The conclusions of the meeting will be available as of 21 February on the FATF web site: www.fatf-gafi.org
FATF members include: Argentina; Australia; Austria; Belgium; Brazil; Canada; Denmark; the European Commission; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; the Gulf Co-operation Council; Hong Kong, China; Iceland; Ireland; Italy; Japan; Luxembourg; Mexico; Kingdom of the Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway; Portugal; Russian Federation; Singapore; South Africa; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Turkey; United Kingdom; United States.