AML / CFT
From 2019 to 22 July 2022
The Attorney General was the Regulator/Supervisor of Law Firm, Foreign Law Firm, Joint Law Venture and Foreign Lawyers as defined in the Law Practitioners Act for AML/CFT purposes. (First Schedule of Part 1 of The Financial Intelligence Anti Money Laundering Act 2002 (FIAMLA).
However, following an amendment made in the FIAMLA by the Financial Intelligence and Anti-Money Laundering Act (Amendment of Schedule) Regulations 2022 the Attorney-General is no longer the supervisor/Regulator of Law Firm, Foreign Law Firm, Joint Law Venture and Foreign Lawyers since 22 July 2022. Supervision of these entities is now carried out by the Financial Intelligence Unit.
- AML/CFT Guidelines for Legal Professionals
- Guidance for Small Law Firms on Managing ML/TF Risks
- Guidance on the Risk-Based Approach to the anti-money laundering and terrorism financing framework for law firms, foreign law firms, joint law ventures and foreign lawyers
- Guidelines on Implementation of Targeted FinancialSanctions (TFS)
- Findings on On-site Inspections
- Findings of On-site Inspections in respect of Targeted Financial Sanctions (TFS) requirements
- Explanatory Note on the implementation of United Nations Sanctions Measures
- National Strategy 2019-2022
- Statistical Questionnaire Legal Professionals
- Fact Sheets on AML CFT
- Implementation of Targeted Sanctions
- National Sanctions Secretariat Notice
- Summary of UN Regimes
- National Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risk Assessment of Mauritius
- Mauritius First Follow up report
- Mauritius Second Follow up report
- Second Round MER of Mauritius – July 2018