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WCO holds Anti-Money Laundering/Counter-Terrorism Financing Workshop on Operation TENTACLE-Latin America
The World Customs Organization (WCO) Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter-Terrorism Financing (CTF) Programme, together with WCO partner organizations INTERPOL and the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs), launched the first AML/CTF workshop of 2021, Operation TENTACLE-Latin America , from 18 to 21 January 2021. The virtual workshop was attended by 58 representatives of Customs administrations and FIUs in 23 different countries (including Latin American countries, the United States and other gem/gold-smuggling hub countries), as well as INTERPOL officers.
In addition to the presentations by WCO AML-CTF experts, the WCO Regional Intelligence Liaison Office for the Commonwealth of Independent States (RILO CIS), India s Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), the Israel Tax Authority and Turkey s Ministry of Finance also gave presentations about the current AM