Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh, headof the Anti-Money Laundering Steering Committee, has urged the Ministry ofPublic Security to coordinate with the State Bank of Vietnam to provideinformation and data proving Vietnam’s priority to counter terrorism andterrorist financing.
He made the request at a meeting of the committee in Hanoi onMarch 5 to review the evaluation of the Asia-Pacific Group on Money Laundering(APG) on Vietnam’s mechanisms to fight money laundering, terrorist financing,and proliferation of mass destruction weapons, at the APG’s first multilateralassessment report.
The Ministry of Public Security was tasked to update the resultsof the realisation of the action plan after the national risk assessment onmoney laundering and terrorism financing at the ministry, and prove its implementationof financial investigations and anti-terrorism activities.
The Supreme People’s Procuracy is responsible for collectinginformation related to 17 crimes stated in the national risk assessment reporton money laundering and terrorist financing.
The Deputy PM asked the Ministry of Finance to update and providedata on tax evasion and confiscation of money, assets and cross-border transfertools at the request of the APG evaluation group, as well as typical cases ofinternational cooperation with foreign inspection and supervision agencies incasino and securities.
According to State Bank of Vietnam Governor Le Minh Hung, Vietnamis scheduled to have a meeting with the APG evaluation group in April 2020 anddefend its report at the annual APG meeting in July./.