As part of the preparations for the mutual assessment of the national system for combating money laundering, terrorist financing and the financing of proliferation, a pre-evaluation workshop is organized by the Samifin in partnership with ESAAMLG for five days at the Radisson Blu Tanà Water Front.
This workshop, bringing together around thirty participants from the public sector at the level of the presidency and the government as well as from the private sector, constitutes a crucial step to guarantee the success of the evaluation. “” It is also a continuation of the work carried out by the national task force bringing together these various public and private entities including the ministries concerned, the central bank, the parliament, the banks, the lawyers, the car dealers, while allowing to tackle essential technical themes. The objective consists in strengthening national skills on the new GAFI methodology by providing the essential information essential to the holding of the mutual assessment scheduled for January 2026 “Explained the director general of the Samifin, Mamitiana Rajaonarison, when opening this pre-evaluation workshop funded by Secfin Africa yesterday.
Transparency of effective beneficiaries
For the time being, ” The note from Madagascar improved compared to the first evaluation in 2018 since 29 of the 40 recommendations issued by the GAFI are satisfied. We must still provide efforts to establish centralized statistics on the fight against money laundering, terrorism financing and the financing of proliferation that may be available in the country. The transparency of the effective beneficiaries of companies is another recommendation issued in order to combat screens companies. Previously, quantities of illegally exported gold have been seized while sponsors were not known as they were screens. From now on, any company must make a declaration of its beneficial beneficiary to the Directorate General of Taxes otherwise it will be sanctioned. This database will be available by the end of the year. Furthermore, Madagascar must be able to prove that sanctions will be imposed on companies that do not comply with the procedures for combating money laundering to prevent the system to be favorable to this offense “, He concluded.
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