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

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GAFILAT Follow-up Report Colombia - 2022

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This follow-up report sets out the progress that Colombia, member of FATF-Style Regional Body, Financial Action Task Force of Latin America (GAFILAT), has made in improving its level of compliance with the FATF standards, since their 2018 mutual evaluation. As a result, Colombia has been rere-rated on the following Recommendations:

  • Recommendation 13 from partially compliant to compliant 
  • Recommendation 16 from partially compliant to compliant 
  • Recommendation 19 from partially compliant to compliant 
  • Recommendation 33 from partially compliant to compliant 
  • Recommendation 34 from partially compliant to compliant  

Colombia is now “compliant” with 13 of the forty FATF Recommendations, “largely compliant” with 16 Recommendations and “partially compliant” with 10 Recommendations. The country has one “non-compliant” rating.

 

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