“The role and responsibility of the actors of the financial system and prosecution authorities in the prevention and the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing: the case of personnel of bank, ANIF, magistrates and judicial police officers”.  This is the theme under which was placed the seminar of awereness and training on these two scourges, whose work was opened, Monday 25 November 2019 in Brazzaville (Republic of Congo), by Henri Loundou, director of cabinet, representing Calixte Nganongo, Minister of Finance and Budget. 

This training, which will end Friday 29 November 2019, is organized by the National Financial Investigation Agency (ANIF) of Congo-Brazzaville, in collaboration with the Training Centre of the Bank Professions (TCBP). “Integrity, attraction and performance are signs of healthy financial centre. Congo, which has recently renegotiated and signed an Extended Credit Facility (ECF) programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), ataches great importance to the health of its financial centre. This is a gaurantee to reassure the technical and financial partners (TFP) and attrack investors”, Henri Loundou said.

“The Congolese Government is working hard to protect itself against the criminal use of its financial centre and to restore the country's financial habits, particularly the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing”, he said. Henri Loundou believes that efficiency and success in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing, particularly in terms of prevention, depend on the creation and pooling, nationwide, the capacities of risks analysis and knowledge of criminal phenomena by the various competent authorities involved in this fight (personnel of banks, ANIF, magistrates, judicial police officers, etc.)

In short, although weaknesses are still noted in this field in Congo, some progress, which attest to the dynamism of this country in the anti-money laundering system and terrorist financing, are observed. The director of cabinet of the Minister of Finance and Budget.

It should be noted that the National Financial Investigation Agency of the Republic of Congo has become, since 2018, a member of the Egmont Groupe which has 167 countries. Today, this agency has braod access to information on money laundering and terrorist financing

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The Press office of the Ministry of Finance