Financial operations with some countries will be checked by the Anticorruption Center

The organizations which perform financial operations with several countries of the world are obliged to submit information concerning these operations, as settled by law, to the Center for Combating Economic Crime and Corruption (CCECC), Info-Prim Neo reports. According to an order recently signed by the director of CCECC, Valentina Mejinschi, the financial operations are considered suspect if they are performed by countries which do not have laws against money laundering and financing terrorism or have inadequate norms on this issues, the countries having a high rate of criminality and corruption, off-shore countries or zones, as well as tfinancial operations performed by persons, groups and entities considered participating in terrorist activities. The list itemizes 45 countries where illegal production of weapons and drugs might exist, such as Albania, Afghanistan, China, Australia, Egypt, Venezuela etc. Among the countries which do not have laws against money laundering and financing terrorism or have inadequate norms in this respect are included Myanmar, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Cote d’Ivoire, Haiti, and Iraq. CCECC considers that another 14 countries have a high rate of criminality and corruption. Cyprus, Costa Rica, Israel, Malta and Monaco are among those 55 off-shore countries or zones. This document also includes 56 persons and 48 groups considered to have participated in terrorist activities, such as the communist party from Philippines, ETA, Armed Units for Communism, Hamas, Real IRA, Red Brigades fot the Construction of the Fighting Communist Party etc.