The foreign Minister of Iraq, Fuad Hussein asked a German colleague Heiko Maas to assist in the exclusion of the country from the list of EU countries with weak rules against money laundering and financing of terrorism.
During a telephone conversation Hussein and Maas also discussed a number of topics concerning bilateral relations.
the Minister of foreign Affairs Fuad Hussein urged his German counterpart to support the exclusion of Iraq from the list of countries with a high risk of money laundering and financing of terrorism, reads the statement of the Iraqi foreign Ministry.
In October 2016, Iraq has been included in the list of third countries with weak rules against money laundering and financing of terrorism. The EU is obliged to identify third countries in which there are shortcomings in the fight against these phenomena, which in turn poses a threat to the financial system of the European Union.
As previously wrote NEWS.ru on the territory of Crimea, security forces detained six people suspected of involvement in the activities of “Hizb ut-Tahrir” (banned in Russia as a terrorist organization). About it to journalists on 7 July said the lawyer Emil Kurbedinov.
