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

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Overall, Albania has made some progress in addressing the TC deficiencies identified in its 5th Round MER.

  • Recommendation 7, initially rated NC in the Mutual Evaluation is re-rated Partially Compliant

Measures taken by the Albanian authorities with respect to VAs and VASPs are not sufficiently in compliance with the revised requirements of R.15. Therefore, Albania has been re-rated as Partially Compliant on Recommendation 15.

Moneyval-FUR-Albania-2021

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