Laos

GAFI : surveillance renforcée (liste grise)

Since February 2025, when Lao PDR made a high-level political commitment to work with the FATF and APG to strengthen the effectiveness of its AML/CFT regime, Lao PDR has taken steps to improve its AML/CFT regime by addressing the remaining technical compliance deficiencies in its targeted financial sanctions regime for TF. Lao PDR should continue to work on implementing its FATF action plan to address its strategic deficiencies, including:

1. enhancing its understanding of ML/TF risks
2. improving risk-based supervision of casinos, banks, and reporting entities in SEZs, including fit and proper checks
3. enhancing the quality and quantity of financial intelligence analysis and spontaneous dissemination to law enforcement agencies
4. ensuring that law enforcement agencies receive training and guidance on money laundering
5. demonstrating an increase in ML investigations and prosecutions in line with Lao PDR’s risk profile, with an emphasis on crimes with a transnational element that require international co-operation
6. developing a national confiscation policy consistent with its ML/TF risks
7. demonstrating that relevant competent authorities are taking measures to identify, seize, and, where applicable, confiscate proceeds and instrumentalities of crime in line with the risk profile
8. monitoring FIs’ and DNFBPs’ compliance with PF TFS obligations
9. addressing technical compliance deficiencies in Recommendations 7 and 10

Source : Déclaration du GAFI, octobre 2026