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Kazakhstan’s AML Compliance: A Comprehensive Checklist

Kazakhstan has made significant strides in implementing anti-money laundering (AML) regulations, as reflected in its recent FATF Mutual Evaluation. The evaluation assesses a country’s compliance with the 40 Recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

Assessment Breakdown

Here is a breakdown of Kazakhstan’s performance in each area:

Risk and Approach

  • Assessing Risk and Applying a Risk-Based Approach: Largely Compliant

National Cooperation and Coordination

  • National Cooperation and Coordination: Compliant

Money Laundering Offence

  • Money Laundering Offence: Largely Compliant

Confiscation and Provisional Measures

  • Confiscation and Provisional Measures: Largely Compliant

Terrorist Financing Offence

  • Terrorist Financing Offence: Largely Compliant

Targeted Financial Sanctions

  • Targeted Financial Sanctions Related to Terrorism and Terrorist Financing: Partially Compliant
  • Targeted Financial Sanctions Related to Proliferation: Partially Compliant

Additional Areas of Compliance

Non-Profit Organisations

  • Non-Profit Organisations: Largely Compliant

Financial Institution Secrecy Laws

  • Financial Institution Secrecy Laws: Largely Compliant

Customer Due Diligence

  • Customer Due Diligence: Largely Compliant

Record Keeping

  • Record Keeping: Largely Compliant

Specific Industries and Sectors

Politically Exposed Persons

  • Politically Exposed Persons: Largely Compliant

Correspondent Banking

  • Correspondent Banking: Largely Compliant

Money or Value Transfer Services

  • Money or Value Transfer Services: Largely Compliant

New Technologies

  • New Technologies: Partially Compliant

Reporting and Investigation

Wire Transfers

  • Wire Transfers: Largely Compliant

Reliance on Third Parties

  • Reliance on Third Parties: Largely Compliant

Internal Controls and Foreign Branches and Subsidiaries

  • Internal Controls and Foreign Branches and Subsidiaries: Largely Compliant

International Cooperation

Higher-Risk Countries

  • Higher-Risk Countries: Largely Compliant

Reporting of Suspicious Transactions

  • Reporting of Suspicious Transactions: Compliant

Tipping-Off and Confidentiality

  • Tipping-Off and Confidentiality: Compliant

Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions (DNFBPs)

DNFBPs: Customer Due Diligence

  • DNFBPs: Customer Due Diligence: Largely Compliant

DNFBPs: Other Measures

  • DNFBPs: Other Measures: Largely Compliant

Transparency and Beneficial Ownership

  • Transparency and Beneficial Ownership of Legal Persons: Partially Compliant
  • Transparency and Beneficial Ownership of Legal Arrangements: Largely Compliant

Regulation and Supervision

Regulation and Supervision of Financial Institutions

  • Regulation and Supervision of Financial Institutions: Partially Compliant

Powers of Supervisors

  • Powers of Supervisors: Largely Compliant

Regulation and Supervision of DNFBPs

  • Regulation and Supervision of DNFBPs: Partially Compliant

Financial Intelligence Units and Statistics

Financial Intelligence Units

  • Financial Intelligence Units: Compliant

Statistics

  • Statistics: Largely Compliant

Guidance and Feedback

Guidance and Feedback

  • Guidance and Feedback: Largely Compliant

Sanctions

Sanctions

  • Sanctions: Partially Compliant

International Instruments and Cooperation

International Instruments

  • International Instruments: Largely Compliant
  • Mutual Legal Assistance: Largely Compliant

Extradition

  • Extradition: Largely Compliant

Other Forms of International Cooperation

  • Other Forms of International Cooperation: Largely Compliant