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

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Tunisia

Follow-up report Tunisia - 2020

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Tunisia has made efforts to address the deficiencies remaining since their 2016 Mutual Evaluation Report and subsequent follow- up reports. 

After analysing the information submitted by the Tunisian authorities the following recommendations have been re-rated: 

  • Recommendation 6 from largely compliant to compliant
  • Recommendation 7 from non-compliant to largely compliant
  • Recommendation 8 from largely compliant to compliant
  • Recommendation 18 from partially compliant to largely compliant 
  • Recommendation 22 from partially compliant to largely compliant
  • Recommendation 24 from partially compliant to largely compliant 
  • Recommendation 25 from partially compliant to largely compliant
  • Recommendation 28 from partially compliant to largely compliant 
  • Recommendation 31 from partially compliant to largely compliant 

Tunisia will remain in enhanced follow-up and should submit its next enhanced follow-up report FUR in November 2020.

Technical Compliance

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

Tunisia Follow-Up Report 2020

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

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

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