The Federal Public Revenue Administration (AFIP) has created, on a permanent basis, the Committee called “Prevention of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism”.
This is established by the Provision 350/2018 published this Wednesday (26.12.2018) in the Official Gazette.
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The “ML/FT Prevention Committee” will be made up of the following five officials: detailed below:
- Federal Administrator of the Federal Public Revenue Administration,
- Directors General of the General Directorates of Taxation, Customs and Social Security Resources,
- Deputy Directors General of the Sub-Directorates General of Audit and Legal Affairs,
- Deputy Director General of the Subdirectorate General of Technical Institutional Coordination, who will act as Liaison Officer with the Financial Information Unit (UIF).
- Director of the Directorate for the Prevention of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism, who will act as Compliance Officer.
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The new committee will be responsible for approving the strategic guidelines of the Directorate for the Prevention of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism, in accordance with the policies established by the UIF.
The measure comes into force as of 27th December 2018.
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