Sanaa determined to eliminate money laundering, terrorism financing

SANAA, Jan. 30 (YPA) – Head of the General Authority for Lands, Surveying and Urban Planning Abdulaziz al-Ansi on Thursday said that there are official efforts being made at the highest levels to combat money laundering crimes and eliminate the economic and financial portals that feed terrorism.

“The real estate sector is one of the most attractive sectors for money launderers and terrorist financiers,” al-Ansi said at the conclusion of a training course for the authority’s cadres and real estate dealers on how to identify money laundering crimes and confront them.

He stressed the need to spread societal awareness of the riskiness of these crimes on the national economy.

For his part, Nabil al-Montaser, deputy head of the national committee for combating money laundering and terrorist financing, noted to the importance of implementing the anti-money laundering and terrorist financing law.

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