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

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MENAFATF - Mauritania Follow-up Report - November 2021

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

This follow-up report sets out the progress that Mauritania, member of FATF-Style Regional Body MENAFATF, has made in improving its level of compliance with the FATF standards, since their 2018 mutual evaluation and their most recent follow-up report.  

The follow-up report also assesses the implementation of FATF Recommendations that were modified since the country's mutual evaluation. 

Recommendation 2 is re-rated from partially compliant to compliant  

Recommendation 11 re-rated from partially compliant to compliant

Recommendation 26 is re-rated from partially compliant to compliant

Mauritania is now “compliant” with 14 of the forty FATF Recommendations, “largely compliant” with 21 Recommendations and “partially compliant” with five Recommendations. The country has no “non-compliant” ratings.