Pakistan likely to remain on FATF’s grey list for four more months: Report
India TV NewsPakistan is likely to remain on the grey list of global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog FATF until June for failing to meet some of the targets under the additional criteria, according to a media report on Friday. In October 2021, the FATF acknowledged Pakistan’s progress on a 27-point action plan on completion of 26 items but kept the country on its “increased monitoring list” to exhibit terror financing investigations against and prosecutions of top cadres of UN-designated terror groups. The most recent action plan of 2021 on money laundering from FATF’s regional affiliate — the Asia Pacific Group — largely focused on money laundering and had found serious deficiencies. Recently, the International Monetary Fund asked Pakistan to complete the last remaining item in the 2018 anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing action plan on the effectiveness of terror financing investigations and prosecutions of senior leaders of UN-designated terrorist groups. It asked Pakistan to promptly address the deficiencies identified in Pakistan’s Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering Mutual Evaluation Report under the 2021 AML/CFT action plan, the report said.