Sri Lanka has been removed from the “Grey List” of the international terror financing watchdog FATF, according to a media report. The FATF, whose five-day plenary concluded in Paris on Friday, said Sri Lanka made significant progress in addressing the strategic AML/CFT deficiencies identified earlier, the daily said. AdvertisingThe Paris based organisation indicated Sri Lanka had not made sufficient progress in four parameters — international cooperation, supervision, legal persons and arrangements and targeted financial sanctions on proliferations (North Korea and Iran), the daily said. At its meeting at Buenos Aires, Argentina in October 2017, the FATF listed Sri Lanka as a jurisdiction with strategic AML/CFT deficiencies which is more commonly identified as “Grey List” and provided a time-bound action plan, the report said. On Friday, the FATF retained Pakistan on its “Grey List” and warned it of getting blacklisted, if it does not control terror funding by February next year.

Source: Indian Express October 19, 2019 11:48 UTC