Irak

FATF: verstärkte Beobachtung (graue Liste)

Statement from June 2026

In June 2026, Iraq made a high-level political commitment to work with the FATF and MENAFATF to strengthen the effectiveness of its AML/CFT regime. Since the adoption of its MER in November 2024, Iraq has made progress on its MER’s recommended actions, including through applying market entry controls to prevent criminals and terrorists from accessing important sectors, providing guidance and outreach to non-banking financial institutions and DNFBPs and introducing measures to mitigate the risks in the real estate sector, and enhancing authorities’ understanding on how legal persons are misused for ML/TF. Iraq will continue to work with the FATF to implement its FATF action plan by:

1. enhancing its understanding of specific ML/TF risks and adopting appropriate riskbased preventive measures
2. enhancing the detection of informal money or value transfer services, establishing a legislative framework for VSAPs and applying effective, proportionate and dissuasive sanctions for breaches of AML/CFT requirements
3. ensuring FIs and DFNBPs apply TFS and PEP measures
4. increasing the quantity and quality of STRs with a focus on high-risk sectors and demonstrating an increase use of financial information particularly related to DNFPBs
5. enhancing risk-based implementation of beneficial ownership measures
6. pursuing more ML investigations and prosecutions of ML and reviewing sentencing in ML cases
7. pursuing more TF investigations and prosecutions in relation to specific TF risks and addressing the technical compliance issues in relation to its TF offence
8. developing a robust understanding of the NPO sector and the TF risks affecting NPOs and implementing risk-based measures while avoiding undue disruption or other unintended consequences for legitimate NPO activities
9. enhancing its ability to identify and combat PF TFS evasion

Quelle: FATF-Erklärung, Oktober 2026