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The Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism National Coordination Committee (NCC) Virtual Meeting, 15th June 2022 at 10 am
The
Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism National
Coordination Committee (NCC) was established in June 2011 as an official forum
to discuss and advise on policy issues regarding the implementation of
anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism strategy. The
NCC is chaired by the Principal Secretary, Ministry of Finance while the
Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit is its secretary.
In its Meeting, which was held virtually on the 15th June 2022, at 10:00 am, the NCC discussed amongst others the following:
a) Feedback
Report: 43rd ESAAMLG Task Force of Senior Officials Virtual Meeting, 02 – 08 April 2022 – REF:
NCC/06/2022/1
b) Establishment of
the Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing/Counter Proliferation
Financing (AML/CTF/CPF) Unit in the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) –
REF: NCC/06/2022/2
c) Enactment of Law on Financial
Cooperatives – REF: NCC/06/2022/3
d) National Risk Assessment (NRA) Report
Briefing – REF: NCC/06/2022/4
e) Establishment
of Mutual Evaluation Working Groups – REF: NCC/06/2022/5
f) Calendar of NCC Meetings – NCC/06/2022/6
and
g) Case Managements System – NCC/06/2022/7.
The NCC
concluded its Meeting by adopting some of the recommendations submitted by the
Anti-Money Laundering/ Counter Financing of Terrorism Task Team and directed
that the presentations on the National Risk Assessment findings and a recently
completed Case Management System be organised as soon as possible to ensure the
Lesotho’s readiness for the ESAAMLG Second Round of Mutual Evaluation scheduled
to begin in July 2022.
