Pakistan is probably going to be off the ‘dark rundown’ of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The declaration for a similar will happen at the FATF meeting, which is booked for this present week, from June 14 to 17, 2024, in Berlin (Germany). As per sources, Pakistan has finished 26 of the 27 things to do in its 2018 activity plan for the FATF and six of the seven things to do in the 2024 activity plan of the FATF’s Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG).
As per FATF’s declaration, the agents addressing 206 individuals from the Global Network and onlooker associations, including the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations, the World Bank, and the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units, will participate in the last entire under the two-year German Presidency of Dr. Marcus Pleyer from June 14–17, 2024. The German government will have this half-breed occasion in Berlin, with a critical number of members participating face-to-face.
This month, the German Ambassador to Pakistan, Bernhard Schlagheck, expressed any desire for Pakistan to be taken out of the FATF dim rundown this month. Addressing media people in Islamabad on Sunday, the German agent disregarded worries of campaigning against Pakistan at the FATF. He stated that the FATF was a group and that a single country could not influence decisions. “It is a specialised interaction and positive outcomes concerning Pakistan are normal,” he added.
