Ghana's Attorney-General And Minister For Justice, Mrs. Marrieta Brew Appiah, Delievering The Opening Address
Ghana's Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Marrietta Appiah Oppong has indicated that the country is not complacent about its recent achievement of being delisted from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) public statement.To even chalk more successes in the future, she mentioned that processes have been initiated 'to enact a Real Estate Agency Act and a new Extradition Act to leave no room for money laundering activities and to also ensure effective prosecution of suspects.'The country was delisted from being among the non-compliant countries and territories from February 2012 to October 2012, following its commitment to addressing the deficiencies in anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT).With a weak anti-money laundering regime, Ghana was subjected to a peer review of compliance with the FATF recommendations 40+9 in April 2009, hence the move to enact and amend existing laws.Enactment and amendmentConforming to the written commitment, the government of Ghana took drastic measures to enact and amend relevant laws per the FATF recommendations. ...
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