VOL. XLIV

No. 27

2-July-2001

EGYPT

Egypt Put On FATF Money Laundering Blacklist

The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an inter-governmental body established in 1989, announced on 22 June that it had placed Egypt and five other countries on a blacklist of non-cooperating countries and jurisdictions (NCCTs) for failing to meet FATF anti-money laundering standards. The FATF called immediately on its member countries "to request their financial institutions to give special attention to...