The secretary of the Senaclaft, Jorge Chediak, listed some areas in which changes must be made.
He money laundering and the financing of terrorism They are a combo that generates concern for the country and that is why in Uruguay It is not ruled out making legal modifications to advance in combating the problem, according to the National Secretary of the Senaclaft, Jorge Chediak.
Improving the prosecution of different crimes and adding a greater amount of work to assist agents who must issue suspicious transaction reports are some of the keys that he exposed Chediak, that add to strengthen prevention.
The secretary of the senaclaft slipped the possibility of working on legal modifications to improve combat to the money laundering, when speaking at the Conversation on the new National ML/FT Risk Assessment: main threats, vulnerabilities and recommended actions.
In turn, the former secretary of the senaclaft and President of the World Compliance Association, Daniel Espinosa, He considered that the country “is not adequately facing” the problem and considered that it is in a “more vulnerable” state.
In this sense, he requested a greater amount of resources for the organizations specialized in combating organized crime, but he also raised the need to improve coordination at work. By focusing on activities where capital from organized crime is laundered, prickly He pointed out that the reports of suspicious operations emanating from the agents obliged to issue warnings are low.
In the normative part “Uruguay is one of the best in the class”
Chediak highlighted the regulatory part of the country some time ago and pointed out that “Uruguay it’s one of the best in the class” in that aspect, so he focused on “improving the application and the mechanisms”.
On this point, he remarked that “there is a State policy that has been going on since 1998 and it has been maintained by all the important parties, whether they are ruling parties or the opposition.” In any case, he clarified: “The country is not vaccinated against money laundering nor against the financing of terrorism. We have to raise our defenses, improve our mechanisms and fight against something that is in our DNA”.
Source: Ambito
