Morocco's progress in addressing the technical compliance deficiencies identified in its Mutual Evaluation report.

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Morocco has made progress in addressing the technical compliance deficiencies identified in its Mutual Evaluation report.

The following Recommendations have been re-rated:

  • Recommendation 35 from “Partially Compliant” to “Compliant”.
  • Recommendations 4, 6, 22, 23, 28, 30, 40 from “Partially Compliant” to “Largely Compliant”
  • Recommendations 25 and 32 from “Non-Compliant” to “Partially Compliant”
  • Recommendation 7 from “Non-Compliant” to “Largely Compliant”

Recommendation 15 is re-rated Non-Compliant.

The Kingdom of Morocco is now rated “Compliant” with 5 Recommendations, “Largely Compliant” with 29 Recommendations, “Partially Compliant” with 5 Recommendations and “Non-Compliant” with one Recommendation.

Morocco shall remain in enhanced follow-up.

Follow-up Report to the mutual evaluation of Morocco - 2022

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Technical Compliance

Ratings which reflect the extent to which a country has implemented the technical requirements of the FATF Recommendations.

Morocco Follow-Up Report 2022

R.1 - Assessing risk & applying risk-based approach
LC
R.2 - National cooperation and coordination
LC
R.3 - Money laundering offence
LC
R.4 - Confiscation and provisional measures
LC
R.5 - Terrorist financing offence
LC
R.6 - Targeted financial sanctions related to terrorism & terrorist financing
LC
R.7 - Targeted financial sanctions related to proliferation
LC
R.8 - Non-profit organisations
LC
R.9 - Financial institution secrecy laws
C
R.10 - Customer due diligence
LC
R.11 - Record keeping
LC
R.12 - Politically exposed persons
LC
R.13 - Correspondent banking
C
R.14 - Money or value transfer services
LC
R.15 - New technologies
NC
R.16 - Wire transfers
LC
R.17 - Reliance on third parties
C
R.18 - Internal controls and foreign branches and subsidiaries
LC
R.19 - Higher-risk countries
LC
R.20 - Reporting of suspicious transactions
LC
R.21 - Tipping-off and confidentiality
C
R.22 - DNFBPs: Customer due diligence
LC
R.23 - DNFBPs: Other measures
LC
R.24 - Transparency and beneficial ownership of legal persons
PC
R.25 - Transparency and beneficial ownership of legal arrangements
PC
R.26 - Regulation and supervision of financial institutions
LC
R.27 - Powers of supervisors
LC
R.28 - Regulation and supervision of DNFBPs
LC
R.29 - Financial intelligence units
LC
R.30 - Responsibilities of law enforcement and investigative authorities
LC
R.31 - Powers of law enforcement and investigative authorities
PC
R.32 - Cash couriers
PC
R.33 - Statistics
LC
R.34 - Guidance and feedback
LC
R.35- Sanctions
C
R.36 - International instruments
LC
R.37 - Mutual legal assistance
LC
R.38 - Mutual legal assistance: freezing and confiscation
PC
R.39 - Extradition
LC
R.40 - Other forms of international cooperation
LC

C = compliant   |   LC = largely compliant     |   PC = partially compliant   |   NC = non-compliant

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