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Mauritania Achieves Technical Compliance Re-Rating by MENAFATF

Background

The Islamic Republic of Mauritania has submitted a technical compliance (TC) re-rating request to the Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force (MENAFATF). This report provides an overview of Mauritania’s progress in addressing deficiencies identified in its previous assessment.

Recommendations

The MENAFATF reviewed Mauritania’s request and made the following recommendations:

Recommendations for Upgrades

• Recommendation 2: Upgrade from “Partially Compliant” (PC) to “Compliant” (C)
• Recommendation 11: Upgrade from PC to C
• Maintain Recommendation 15 at PC

Compliance Ratings after Re-Rating

After re-rating, Mauritania obtained:

• Compliant: 14 recommendations
  • Recommendations that Mauritania has fully implemented and is in compliance with international standards.
• Largely Compliant: 21 recommendations
  • Recommendations that Mauritania has made significant progress but requires further improvement to achieve full compliance.
• Partially Compliant: 5 recommendations
  • Recommendations that Mauritania has not fully addressed or has made limited progress.

Next Steps

Mauritania will remain in the Enhanced Follow-up process and is required to submit its 4th Enhanced Follow-up Report (EFUR) to the 35th Plenary meeting in November 2022. This report aims to support Mauritania in improving its anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorism financing (CTF), and predicate offenses regime, ensuring compliance with international standards.

Overall, this re-rating demonstrates progress made by Mauritania in addressing deficiencies and reinforces its commitment to combating money laundering and terrorism financing.