Governor of the Central Bank of Syria called on Tuesday all concerned parties to implement the legislative decree related to the fight against money laundry and financing terror in Syria, saying that these two phenomena are posing a “dangerous plague.”
According to SANA, Dr. Adiyb Mayaleh told a meeting of the Board for Combat Against Money Laundry and Financing Terror, to energize legislative decree 33 in this respect, noting that “It is very necessary to coordinate among all concerned parties to implement decree 33 related to fight money laundry and terror financing.”
“These two phenomena of money laundry and terror financing are constituting a dangerous plight threatening the national and international economy,” he said, noting that Syria has sought to protect its banking system via decree number 33 that criminalize money laundry perpetrators and defines the action as every behavior that aims at hiding or changing the identity of money that is related to illegal operations to look like being resulted from legal ones.
