Sri Lanka is set to undergo its third Mutual Evaluation on Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT), coordinated by the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG).
📌 Key Aspects of the Evaluation:
🔹 Compliance with 40 Recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
🔹 Effectiveness assessment through 11 Immediate Outcomes
🔹 Implementation of Action Plans approved by the Cabinet of Ministers
To ensure a coordinated national response, a high-level AML/CFT Task Force has been reconstituted under Presidential direction.
👥 Task Force Members:
- Justice Buwaneka Aluwihare, PC – Retired Supreme Court Judge (Chairman)
- Harshana Nanayakkara – Minister of Justice
- (Prof.) Anil Jayantha Fernando – Minister of Labour & Deputy Minister of Economic Development
- (Dr.) Harshana Suriyapperuma – Deputy Minister of Finance & Planning
- Nelumani Daulagala – Senior Deputy Governor, CBSL
- A K D D D Arandara – Additional Director General, Ministry of Finance
The first meeting on January 29, 2025, emphasized the strategic importance of this assessment and called for full cooperation from all stakeholder institutions.
🔗 Source: Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL)
