India will inform FATF of recent evidence on Pakistan’s terror infrastructure.
• Indian authorities plan to share evidence of Pakistan’s terror bases destroyed during Operation Sindoor.
• The decision is based on technical compliance of FATF’s anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CTF) recommendations.
• The government official expects India to highlight the latest evidence about Pakistan’s patronage of banned terrorist organizations.
• Pakistan was removed from the FATF Grey List in October 2022, but will continue to work with the Asia Pacific Group (APG) to improve its AML/CFT system.
• Pakistan was placed on the Grey List in 2018 due to strategic deficiencies with respect to AML and CFT recommendations.
• The FATF Plenary noted that it had completed 26 of the 27 action items in its 2018 plan.
• Pakistan was put on the Grey List for the first time in 2008, then removed in 2009, and again brought under increased monitoring from 2012 to 2015.