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US technicians travel to Luanda as part of the fight against money laundering

A team from the Treasury Department of the United States of America (USA) will travel to Luanda in the coming months, within the scope of technical assistance to the National Bank of Angola (BNA) to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.

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The decision was taken at a meeting between the governor of the National Bank of Angola (BNA), José de Lima Massano, and the undersecretary of the US Treasury Department for the area of ​​Financing of Terrorism and Financial Crimes, Brian Nelson.

The meeting took place in Washington on 14 October, on the sidelines of the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the regulator said on its website.

The meeting served to review the technical assistance work that has been provided by the Treasury Department to the BNA's Financial Conduct Department, in the areas of money laundering and terrorist financing.

The U.S. Treasury Department's technical assistance program "consists of the implementation of a risk-based supervisory methodology, the intended result of which is to strengthen the institutional capacity of the Angolan central bank with regard to combating money laundering and terrorist financing. ", reads the note.

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