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The Head of Government, on Thursday, November 27, 2025, in Rabat, chaired a high-level meeting with a delegation including officials from the Financial Action Task Force for the Middle East and North Africa (GAFIMOAN), with the participation of a number of ministers and heads and directors of relevant national institutions.
The delegation of the Financial Action Task Force for the Middle East and North Africa included the current president of the group, the vice-president, and the executive secretary of the group, as well as officials in charge of managing the process of evaluating national systems within the group. This visit comes to give the official launch to the mutual evaluation process of the national system to combat money laundering and terrorist financing in its third round, which will extend until May 2028, the date of discussing the final evaluation report and adopting it.
In his opening speech, the Head of Government reiterated the unwavering political commitment of the Kingdom of Morocco to international principles and standards in the field of combating money laundering, terrorist financing, and the financing of the proliferation of weapons, and its keenness to strengthen its position as a reliable partner within the international system, highlighting the effective coordination between various sectors and national institutions, which enhances the confidence of international bodies in the effectiveness of the national system and its success in keeping pace with the best practices adopted internationally.
For her part, the President of the Financial Action Task Force for the Middle East and North Africa, Samia Abu Sharif, explained that the visit to the Kingdom of Morocco comes within the framework of the evaluation process to which our country will be subjected at the level of combating money laundering and terrorist financing at the end of 2026. She also praised the policies and measures taken in the Kingdom and their contribution to correcting and building an effective and sustainable system in this field, pointing to the importance of legislative amendments to keep pace with international standards.
In addition, the meeting was an opportunity to review the good results achieved by the national system during the recent years of the second round of the mutual evaluation and the reform efforts made at the legal and institutional levels to prepare for the third round, as well as in the field of strengthening coordination mechanisms between various national actors to ensure the Kingdom's readiness for this important international entitlement, as this meeting was also an opportunity to confirm the Kingdom of Morocco's readiness to closely cooperate with the Group's secretariat in all stages of the mutual evaluation process.
The Head of Government directed the call to all the relevant ministerial sectors and national institutions to comprehensive mobilization and serious engagement to make this strategic workshop a success, and to consolidate the image of the Kingdom of Morocco as a state committed to its international obligations, and determined to develop its national system in accordance with the finest international standards and practices in the field of combating money laundering, terrorist financing, and the financing of the proliferation of weapons.
This meeting was attended by the Minister of Justice, Abdelatif Wahbi, the Secretary-General of the Government, Mohamed Hajoui, the Minister of Economy and Finance, Nadia Fettah, and the Wali of Bank Al-Maghrib, Abdellatif Jouahri. In addition to the Director of Political Affairs at the Ministry of Interior, Youssef Al-Nahi, the Director of Treasury and Foreign Finance at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, Mohamed Tariq Bachir, and the President of the National Financial Information Authority, Jawhar Nafisi.
Also attending the meeting were the President of the Supervisory Authority of Insurance and Social Welfare, Abdellah Chafii, the President of the Moroccan Capital Market Authority, Tariq Senhaji, the Director-General of the Exchange Office, Idriss Ben Cheikh, the Director-General of Economic Diplomacy and Cultural Development at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation, and African and Moroccan Residents Abroad, Abdellah Benmlouk, the Director-General of the Customs and Indirect Taxes Administration, Abdellatif El Omrani, the Director of the General Directorate of Taxes, Younes Idrissi Kaitouni, and the Director of Investigations and Control at the Moroccan Capital Market Authority, Hicham Cherradi.
