CB FIU in MoU with Sri Lanka Police

The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of Sri Lanka, attached to the Central Bank ( CB), entered into a Memorandum of Understanding ( MOU) with Sri Lanka Police this week to share information/ intelligence in order to facilitate investigations and prosecutions on money laundering, terrorist financing and other related offences.

This has been done in terms of the provisions of the Financial Transactions Reporting Act, No. 6 of 2006 (FTRA).

Inspector General of Police Pujith Jayasundara and Dr. H. Amarathunga, Director, FIU signed the MoU on behalf of the respective institutions in the presence of Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy, CB Governor who is also the Chairman of the Anti- Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism ( AML/ CFT) National Coordinating Committee, according to a CB media release.

Money laundering and terrorist financing are internationally connected financial crimes which could threaten the stability of domestic as well as global economic and financial systems. The MOU would enable sharing intelligence and information which is vital for prevention, detection and prosecution of such offences, it said.

The FIU has already entered into similar MOUs with Sri Lanka Customs, Department of Immigration and Emigration, Department of Inland Revenue and Department for Registration of Persons while arrangements are being made to sign MOUs with several other relevant domestic government agencies for the above purpose soon.