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Angola blocked suspicious money laundering operations valued at more than 4.2 billion euros in 2021

The Financial Information Unit (UIF) decreed the blocking of 31 suspicious money laundering operations worth a total of 102.5 billion kwanzas and 4.2 billion euros, in 2021.

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The FIU's annual activity report for 2021, consulted this Tuesday by Lusa, states that the body last year authorized subject entities, including commercial banks, to block 31 operations, upon prior authorization requests.

These operations correspond to the global value of 102,522,884,433 kwanzas and 4,242,260,711 euros.

According to the report, more than 50 percent of the aforementioned requests for prior authorization were confirmed by the competent body that opened the respective investigation processes.

Regarding the declarations of cash transactions, the FIU says that it found, in 2021, that the number of banks authorized by the supervisor "did not undergo any change" compared to 2020.

At least 26 commercial banks are authorized and in operation and, of that number, only 23 "have a duty to communicate declarations of cash transactions", emphasizes the FIU.

The body also reports that during 2021 it recorded an increase of more than 350 in the Declarations of Suspicious Operations (DOS) and, on the other hand, recorded a slight reduction in the Declarations of Identification of Designated Persons (DIPD).

"Still in the same period, the FIU dealt with 59 percent of the communications received, through disseminations made to Organs competent bodies", the document reads.

When the requirements for carrying out a DOS or a DIPD do not appear to be met, but it is still thought to be in possession of relevant information to prevent and combat money laundering, explains the FIU, institutions can send this body a communication called Spontaneous Communications (SCs).

The report says that in the period under review, the FIU has seen an increase in the number of national ECs and a reduction in these communications internationally.

A total of 136 requests for information to national institutions were issued by the FIU during 2021 and received feedback from 111 of them: "It should be noted that the number of requests made at national level continues to be higher than international requests".

The document signed by the former director general of the FIU, Francisca de Brito, who was dismissed last April by the President, João Lourenço, having appointed Gilberto Capeça in his place, states that it is supported by presidential decree n.º 2/18 of 11 of January.

The FIU is the central body responsible for coordinating and implementing policies to prevent and combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in Angola.

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