Cyprus' progress in strengthening measures to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing

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Language

English

Country

Cyprus

Topic

Mutual Evaluation

Cyprus has made progress in addressing some of the technical compliance deficiencies identified in its MER.

The country has addressed the deficiencies in respect of the following Recommendations 13 which have been re-rated as follows:

Recommendation 13 has been upgraded from Partially Compliant to Largely Compliant.

Cyprus is rated C/LC on 38 recommendations; two recommendations (R.8 and R.31) remain rated PC.

MONEYVAL - Follow-up Report Cyprus - 2025

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Earlier Reports

3 May 2024

Cyprus' progress in strengthening measures to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing This follow-up report sets out Cyprus' progress in strengthening its framework to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing following its 2020 mutual evaluation and 2022 follow-up report.
1 Dec 2022

Cyprus' progress in strengthening measures to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing This follow-up report sets out the progress that Cyprus has made in improving its level of compliance with the FATF standards, since their 2019 mutual evaluation.
13 Feb 2020

Cyprus's measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing This report provides a summary of the AML/CFT measures in place in Cyprus as at the date of the on-site visit (13-24 May 2019). It analyses the level of effectiveness of the Cyprus's AML/CFT system and the level of compliance with the FATF 40 Recommendations, and provides recommendations on how the system could be strengthened.
27 Sep 2011

Mutual Evaluation Report of Cyprus Cyprus is a member of MONEYVAL, the assessment of the implementation of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT measures in Cyprus was conducted by MONEYVAL.

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