According to the general director of the UIF, Francisca de Brito, no sector of the country is excluded in the actions of the body it oversees.
The responsible said that since March 2020, the UIF began "receiving alerts that societies would be attacked by crimes because of covid-19".
The Angolan society "is not an exception, especially because suddenly the whole world became a buyer of equipment for the prevention and fight against covid-19".
The responsible was speaking this Wednesday, in Luanda, during a debate on "Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing", organized by Rumo Media, under the "Conversations with Rumo".
In the question and answer session of this meeting, after the initial presentation of the director of UIF, the Angolan physician and health manager in the private sector, Nádia Camate, considered that the sector "is always very forgotten when it comes to money laundering.
The doctor warned that in the national health sector, whether in the public or private system, "there are also records of money laundering", noting: "There are non-governmental organizations that come to Angola, offer the world and the cure and, behind, there is in fact money laundering".
"Mainly because they promise not only the cure to the patient, but the financial cure to those who come to these services as workers, they promise continuous training that they don't do, equal salaries in relation to expatriates working in the same position and they don't do it," she pointed out.
Nádia Camate recalled that the program to combat malaria in Angola, "where rivers of money are moved," has records of money laundering, and that they ended up in court, fearing that the same will happen in relation to covid-19.
"And my fear is that it will also happen with covid-19, especially with personal protective equipment. We see them selling masks and alcohol gels in traffic," he said, admitting that "this material destined for public service has been embezzled.
In response to the concerns of the health professional, the general director of the UIF stated that the "anti-money laundering world knew that there would be a party in the health sector" due to covid-19, noting that in Angola the banks are alerted to "supervise" operations linked to health.
Health at this time "is the most affected, but it is not out."
"We ask the banks to be supervisors in these health operations, and it is really worrying and there is also control of the actions of non-governmental organizations in this area," he said.
The Angolan anti-money laundering and terrorist financing system and the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing were topics under discussion at this meeting.
