Anti-money laundering amendments weren’t kept under wraps – PPP

The PPP yesterday downplayed the fact that complex amendments to the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act were tabled just 20 days before the May 27, 2013 deadline for review by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF), despite the fact that the administration was alerted to its shortcomings at least a year ago.

Executive member of the PPP Irfaan Ali told a party news conference that the amendments are well known and have existed in the public domain