The establishment of the Anti-Money Laundering Authority is going ahead as planned, according to the Chairman of the National Assembly’s Committee on Appointments Dr George Norton, who said recently that no Cabinet decision was ever made to stop its creation.
“Obviously,” Norton told Sunday Stabroek when asked whether the motion to approve the persons nominated to form the authority will still move forward in the National Assembly.
His comments and those made by Minister of State Joseph Harmon conflict with the utterances of Minister of Legal Affairs and Attorney General Basil Williams SC, who had said on November 15 that government will be returning to the National Assembly to repeal the Section of the Anti-Money Laundering and the Countering of the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Act that makes provision for the establishment of the Authority.
