Libanon

FATF: verstärkte Beobachtung (graue Liste)

Since October 2024, when Lebanon made a high-level political commitment to work with the FATF and MENAFATF to strengthen the effectiveness of its AML/CFT regime in spite of the challenging social, economic and security situation within the country, Lebanon has taken steps to improve its AML/CFT regime by issuing instructions regarding how to apply TFS without delay and providing targeted outreach and training to FIs and DFNBPs with lower levels of understanding of their TFS obligations. Lebanon should continue working on implementing its FATF action plan to address its strategic deficiencies by:

1. conducting assessments of specific terrorist financing and money laundering risks identified in the MER and ensuring that policies and measures are in place to mitigate these risks
2. enhancing mechanisms to ensure the timely and effective execution of requests for mutual legal assistance, extradition and asset recovery
3. enhancing DNFBPs’ risk understanding and applying effective, proportionate and dissuasive sanctions for breaches of AML/CFT obligations
4. ensuring beneficial ownership information is up-to-date and that there are adequate sanctions and risk-mitigating in place for legal persons
5. enhancing competent authorities’ use of products of the FIU and financial intelligence
6. demonstrating a sustained increase in investigations, prosecutions and court rulings for types of ML in line with the risk
7. improving its approach to asset recovery and identifying and seizing illicit cross-border movements of currency and precious metals and stones
8. pursuing TF investigations and sharing information with foreign partners related to investigations of TF as called for in the MER
9. enhancing the implementation of targeted financial sanctions without delay, particularly at DNFBPs and certain non-banking financial institutions; institutions
10. undertaking targeted and risk-based monitoring of high-risk NPOs, without disrupting or discouraging legitimate NPO activities

Quelle: FATF-Erklärung, Oktober 2026