Vietnam-Thailand cooperation in anti-money laundering
On July 22 in Hanoi, the State Bank of Vietnam and the Anti-Money Laundering Office of Thailand signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in exchanging information on anti-money laundering.
Representatives of the State Bank of Vietnam and the Anti-Money Laundering Office of Thailand signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in exchanging information against money laundering.
(Photo: Tran Viet/VNA)
This signing will facilitate the two sides in the process of collecting, analyzing and processing information to serve the work of preventing and combating money laundering, contributing to the building and strengthening of a good and long-term relationship between Vietnam and Thailand.
Deputy Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam Dang Thanh Binh said that international cooperation in exchanging information related to anti-money laundering is of great significance. Therefore, Vietnam has been making efforts to strongly promote the process of cooperation and information exchange with countries, especially member countries of the Asia-Pacific Group on Anti-Money Laundering.
The State Bank of Vietnam highly appreciates Thailand's anti-money laundering mechanism and activities, and wishes to further promote cooperation and information exchange related to anti-money laundering activities between the two countries.
Mr. Seehanat, Secretary General of the Thai Anti-Money Laundering Office, emphasized that money laundering is a serious problem both nationally and internationally, and it is necessary to prevent and eliminate this type of crime from the economy. In Thailand, this issue has always been of special concern, the Anti-Money Laundering Law was enacted in 1999 and most recently the Anti-Terrorism Law was enacted in 2013. The cooperation aims to exchange information, knowledge and experience in preventing and combating money laundering in each country and region.
A representative of the State Bank said that so far, this agency has signed a memorandum of understanding on information exchange on anti-money laundering with all 6 foreign financial intelligence agencies./.
According to Vietnam+ - LT
