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Qatar, US sign agreement on cooperation in border security
09 Jan 2021 - 10:14
The Peninsula
Prime Minister and Minister of Interior H E Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz Al Thani met yesterday with Acting Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security H E Chad Wolf and his accompanying delegation.
The meeting dealt with reviewing strategic bilateral relations and the means to enhance them, particularly efforts related to border security. The two sides also discussed a number of issues of joint interest.
Afterwards, H E the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior and H E the Acting Secretary for DHS signed a cooperation agreement between the State of Qatar’s Ministry of Interior and the US Department of Homeland Security on enhancing cooperation in the field of border security.
The Department of Revenue (DoR), Ministry of Finance has clarified that any purchase of gold, silver, jewellery, or precious gems and stones below Rs 2 lakh does not require PAN or Aadhaar of a customer as mandatory Know Your Customer (KYC) document. Sources said that the notification issued under PML Act, 2002, on December 28, 2020, is a requirement of FATF Dealers in Precious Metals and Precious Stones (DPMS) to carry out KYC and Customer Due Diligence only when they conduct cash transactions above Rs 10 lakh. This is a requirement of FATF (Financial Action Task Force) - the global money laundering and terrorist financing overseer which as the inter-governmental body sets international standards aimed to prevent illegal activities on terror funding and money laundering, they added.
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