The Central Financial Intelligence Unit (UCREF), a national body on money laundering from illicit drug trafficking and other serious crimes, has published its 2017-2018 activity report.

In the 2017 Anti-Money Laundering Index (AML) of the Basel Institute of Governance, an organization based in Switzerland, Haiti arrives with an average of 7.5 out of 10 seconds in the list of worst Caribbean countries and Latin America (the bigger the number, the higher the country is at risk).

Recall that the law considers that the declaration of source of funds or transaction is also a source for detecting money laundering. This is the reason why natural and legal persons are obliged to ask their customers, from an amount of 600,000 Gourdes (or its equivalent in foreign currency), to complete a declaration of source of funds, in which the customer gives the origin of the amount that is the subject of the transaction. And, in a very short time, the natural or legal persons concerned submit the declaration of source of funds to the UCREF.

This report reveals that 145,645 physical Source of Funds (DPF) declarations and 117,030 DPF electronically were received by the UCREF during fiscal year 2017-2018,

59 Suspicious reports were processed. Six of them, for which serious evidence of money laundering was found, were forwarded to the competent authorities for further action and the remaining 53 were classified for lack of convincing evidence.

70 requests were processed for the Central Directorate of Judicial Police (DCPJ) including 56 through the Bureau of Financial and Economic Affairs (BAFE) and 14 through the Office of Criminal Affairs (BAC)

Download the full activity report 2017-2018 (PDF in French) : https://www.haitilibre.com/docs/ucref-2017-2018.pdf

HL/ HaitiLibre