Gambia: 'Money Laundering, a Major Crime of Our Time'
Money laundering is one of the major crimes of our time, and aside from the associated predicate crimes, it is strongly linked with terrorism financing, said the first deputy governor of the Central Bank of The Gambia (CBG).
Basiru Njie was speaking Monday during the opening ceremony of a five-day workshop on financial analysis at a local hotel in Banjul, organised by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for the staff of the Financial Intelligent Units (FIU) of The Gambia and Sierra Leone.
He said while it is absolutely impossible to know precisely the amount of illicit funds laundered, some studies suggest that they run in the billions if not trillions of dollars a year and poses significant policy concerns for governments.
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