First Emirati joins global financial crime task force

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global watchdog for anti-money laundering and terrorism financing, appointed Abu Dhabi Police’s Major Saad Ahmed Al Marzouqi (LinkedIn) as a member of its International Cooperation Review Team, the Abu Dhabi Police said in a statement. Al Marzouqi, who is the director of the international case requests branch at the criminal investigations directorate, is the first Emirati to join the intergovernmental body. In this role, he will help address deficiencies in countries’ frameworks for combating financial crimes.

First mission? Major Al Marzooqi will participate in an upcoming mission to assess the action plan of an unspecified African country.

REMEMBER- The UAE was recently removed from the FATF’s gray list in February, after the UAE successfully cracked down on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing “deficiencies.”