Publication: Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism : Republic of Uganda
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2007-08
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2013-03-28
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This assessment of the anti-money laundering (AML) and combating the financing of terrorism (CFT) regime of Uganda was based on the 2003 Forty Recommendations on Money Laundering and the Nine Special Recommendations on Terrorist Financing of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) (FATF 40+9), and was prepared using the AML/CFT Methodology of 2004. During the mission, the assessment team met with officials and representatives of relevant government agencies and the private sector. This report provides a summary of the AML/CFT measures in place in Uganda as of the date of completion of the on-site the mission, February 23. 2005. After describing and analyzing those measures, it provides recommendations on how certain aspects of the system could be strengthened. It also sets out Uganda s levels of compliance with the FATF 40+9 Recommendations.
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“World Bank. 2007. Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism : Republic of Uganda. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13025 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”
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