The territory’s Financial Investigation Agency recently signed agreements with its counterparts in six jurisdictions.
At the 19th Egmont Plenary in Yerevan, Armenia from July 11-15, FIA Director Errol George signed memoranda of understanding with the financial intelligence units of Russia, Moldova, Macedonia, Poland, Australia and Montenegro, according to the VI agency.
The agreements were signed to help foster cooperation between the units, which are all members of the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units. The signatories agreed to work together “with respect to the exchange of financial information and intelligence in support of the investigation and prosecution of persons suspected of money laundering and/or the financing of terrorism,” according to an FIA press release.
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