Our project team leader Frédéric Bayard and senior technical advisor, Alma Wanyama, were in Zimbabwe to hold high level meetings with Zimbabwe’s officials. They met representatives from Zimbabwe’s National Prosecution Service, the Anti-Corruption Commission, the Financial Intelligence Unit and the National Police.
Among other issues, they discussed support in the development of a Handbook on National Inter-agency Guidelines on the Investigation and Prosecution of Money Laundering, Terrorism and Terrorist Financing. They also discussed the development of a national Training Curriculum on Financial Investigations.
The Director General of the Zimbabwe FIU, Oliver Chiperesa stated that with Zimbabwe first in line to be assessed in the upcoming 3rd round of mutual evaluations by ESAAMLG, there was an urgent need for the country to address gaps in its AML-CFT regime, including improving inter-agency cooperation and coordination.
The development of the Guidelines Handbook and the training curriculum on Financial Investigations would help the country achieve this goal.
The Zimbabwean officials expressed that they were fully committed to the process and were ready to start the development of these two documents as soon as possible.
