FATF, GIABA Combats Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction – DG

GIABA’s Director-General, Dr. Abdullahi Shehu

Source: Patrick Baidoo

(Coordinator, Anti-Money Laundering Journalists Network-Ghana)

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has tasked its member States to put in place all the necessary regulatory and legal frameworks that will abhor activities and monetary transactions that leads to the creation, promotion and proliferation of all kinds of weapons of mass destruction.

Ghana Makes Giant Strides In Efforts To Combat Money Laundering

Dr. Abdullahi Shehu (L) with Deputy Finance Minister Ato Forson

Source: Modernghana.com

The Chief Executive Officer of Ghana's Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC), Mr. Samuel Thompson Essel, has revealed that Ghana has made enormous strides in efforts to stop the activities of money launderers who have tried to disguise the origin of illegal funds into Ghana.

ECOWAS To Criminalize Weapons Of Mass Destruction

GIABA’s Director-General, Dr. Abdullahi Shehu

Source: Globalnewsreel.com

Chalking some feats in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing in the West African sub-region, the Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA) is yet to engage in another battle.

GIABA Organizes 19th Plenary Meeting of Technical Commission in Accra

Dr Abdullahi Shehu

The Intergovernmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA), will organize the 19th Plenary Meeting of its Technical Commission from 7 to 10 May 2013 in Accra, Ghana.

GIABA advocates revision of anti-money laundering measures

Dr. Abdullahi Shehu

Director-General of the Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA), Dr. Abdullahi Shehu, has stressed the need to revise the Anti-money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) measures.

Statement: NPP has worst record in money laundering

It is quite befuddling to hear the Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, talking so tough on the canker of corruption and how he and his NPP number-two government plans to tackle the menace.

Francophone journalists to be sensitized on money laundering

The Intergovernmental Group of Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA) is organizing from 29 to 30 August 2012 in Praia, Cape Verde, a sensitization workshop for journalists from Francophone and Lusophone ECOWAS.