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

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English

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Bahrain

This follow-up report analyses the progress Bahrain made in addressing the technical compliance deficiencies identified in its Mutual Evaluation report.

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MENAFATF-Bahrain-3rd-Enhanced-Follow-Up-Report.pdf
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As a result of the progress Bahrain made in addressing the technical compliance deficiencies identified in its Mutual Evaluation report, the following recommendations have been re-rated:

  • Recommendations 1, 5, 6, 7 and 23 from Partially Compliant to Largely Compliant
  • Recommendations 2 and 18 from Largely Compliant to Compliant
  • Recommendation 15 is re-rated Largely Compliant

The Kingdom of Bahrain is now "Compliant" on 9 recommendations, "Largely Compliant" on 30 and "Partially Compliant" on 1 of the 40 recommendations.

The country remains in Enhanced Follow-Up and will report back to MENAFATF.

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