On July 12 2024, the Financial Intelligence Agency (FIA) organized in cooperation with the National Association of Real Estate Agents  (NAREA) a training activity regarding the Anti-money laundering and countering terrorist financing (AML/FT), for the representatives of the compliance units  of the reporting entities of law no. 9917/2008 “On the prevention of money laundering and financing of terrorism” as amended.

 

FIA’s main themes in this outreach activity consisted of issues related to the implementation of AML/CFT legislation, the National ML/FT Risk Assessment, the implementation of international sanctions regarding terrorist financing, ML/FT typologies on complex transactions, individual assessment of ML/TF risk by the reporting entities and aspects for improving the reporting process to FIA.

 

FIA will continue its active approach in engagement with NAREA, in order to increase preventive capacities of the reporting entities as well as further strengthening the integrity of the economic and financial system in the Republic of Albania.