India

Member since 2010

Since the assessment of the effectiveness of Australia's measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, the country has been in an enhanced follow-up process.  The country reported back to the FATF in 2018 on the actions it had taken to strengthen its AML/CFT framework.  As a result of this report, the FATF rerated the country on  7 of the 40 Recommendations.  

Today, the country is compliant with 12 Recommendations, largely compliant with another 12 Recommendations, but remains partially compliant with 10 Recommendations and non-compliant with 10. 

India has not yet been assessed in the fourth round of mutual evaluations.  Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the pause in the FATF's assessment process, the mutual evaluation of India will be discussed at the June 2024 Plenary. 

Assessment schedule

India

Assessment Body
FATF/APG/EAG
Last evaluation
2010-06-01 00:00
Possible onsite period
2023-11-01 00:00
Possible Plenary discussion
2024-06-01 00:00

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Lead Ministry/Authority in the FATF Delegation

Ministry of Finance: Department of Economic Affairs

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In 2015, the FATF and APG assessed the effectiveness of Australia's measures to combat money laundering and their compliance with FATF Recommendation.  The report concluded that Australia has a mature regime for combating money laundering and terrorist financing, but that certain key areas remain unadddressed. 

The Mutual Evaluation Report of Australia, recognised that Australia has a good understanding of its money laundering risks, coordinates domestically to address these risks, and has highly effective mechanisms for international cooperation. However, the authorities focus more on the disruption of predicate crimes, rather than on the laundering of the proceeds of these crimes and their confiscation. Therefore, while the report recognises that Australia develops good quality financial intelligence which it shares with law enforcement bodies and other authorities, the report concludes that this information should lead to more ML/TF investigations. 

“Australia has made sound progress in implementing the FATF international standards for combating money laundering and terrorism financing since its last evaluation in 2005. While the FATF recognises the positive improvements made by the Australian government, we seek to encourage further actions in a number of areas highlighted in this report", said FATF Vice President, Je-Yoon Shin.

Following this mutual evaluation, Australia is in an enhanced follow-up process and must report back regularly about the progress it has made in addressing the techical compliance deficiencies and may rerate the country to reflect this progress.   However, this follow-up process does not focus on effectiveness. The effectiveness of Australia's actions to combat money laundering and terrorist financing will be assessed in the 5th round of mutual evaluations.