The Need for Strategically-driven Action against Money Laundering

This week I shall address the two remaining strategic guideposts in designing a road map for the way forward in dealing with money laundering and related challenges in Guyana.

 

Guidepost 3: Dimensionality

 

Fully aware that the Special Select Committee might have focused primarily on the legislative amendments before it, I urge Members however to recognise that the reform of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 cannot be reduced to a task of legal drafting.

In Guyana money-laundering challenges are multi-dimensional. They are political, in that successful challenges to money-laundering