Vatican City, 25 June 2014 (VIS) –
The Autorita Informazione Finanziaria (AIF), the Financial
Intelligence Unit of the Holy See and Vatican City State, has
formalised its bilateral cooperation with Argentina, signing a
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the Vatican on Tuesday.
The MOU was signed in the Palazzo San
Carlo by the director of the AIF, Rene Bruelhart, and the president
of the Unidad de Informacion Financiera (UIF) of Argentina, Jose
Sbattella.
“We're very pleased to have signed
this MOU with Argentina today”, Bruelhart said. “This is an
important step to further expand the network to support global
efforts to fight money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
We're looking forward to fruitful cooperation with Argentina, which
will be beneficial to both parties”.
A Memorandum of Understanding is
standard practice and formalises the cooperation and exchange of
financial information to fight money laundering and combat terrorist
financing across borders between the competent authorities of both
countries. It is based on the model Memorandum of Understanding
prepared by the Egmont Group, the global organisation of national
Financial Intelligence Units, and contains clauses on reciprocity,
permitted uses of information and confidentiality.
AIF became a member of the Egmont Group
in July of 2013, and has already signed MOUs with the Financial
Intelligence Units of more than a dozen countries, including the
U.K., the United States, France, Spain, Italy and Germany.
AIF is the competent authority of the
Holy See/Vatican City State to fight money laundering and the
financing of terrorism. It was established in 2010.
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