🎥 Head of Financial Information Center: joining CFT and Palermo did not pose any serious threat to the country.
Hadi Khani, Head of Financial Information Center:
🔹 10 years have passed since Iran's action plan with FATF. In this 40-point action plan that we signed with the financial task force, we were supposed to carry out plans to remove from the list of countries at high risk for money laundering and eliminating financing.
At this point, he agreed to do these actions and by the way, it was the right thing to do, and whoever signed it should be commended.
🔹 The type of action plan with FATF is the type of laws and regulations that we ourselves recognize the need to implement.
We are the only country in the world whose action plan with FATF has lasted more than 10 years and is still being followed.
🔹 The discussion of joining the CFT and Palermo is a painful story that was decided for 8 years in the benefit council of the system and this is because of causing wrong thoughts of non-experts.
When scientific explanations were given in the assembly, they voted to approve it. 🔹 We read the English texts of the CFT and Palermo conference line by line for the members of the assembly to show that nowhere in these documents, the concerns that many people raise all the time.
Ciapati and Palermo are two international treaties in which countries commit to each other and to other countries to firstly fight transnational organized crime and secondly to finance elimination activities.
Only approving this convention without ensuring its implementation will cause us to challenge FATF.
Accession to these two treaties did not pose a serious threat to the country and they delayed its ratification for many years.