Venezuela

GAFI : surveillance renforcée (liste grise)

Since June 2024, when Venezuela made a high-level political commitment to work with the FATF and CFATF to strengthen the effectiveness of its AML/CFT regime, Venezuela has taken steps to improve its AML/CFT regime. Venezuela should continue working to implement its FATF action plan by:

1. strengthening its understanding of ML/TF risks, including in relation to TF and legal persons and arrangements
2. ensuring the full range of financial institutions and DNFBPs are subject to AML/CFT measures and risk-based supervision
3. ensuring adequate, accurate and up-to-date beneficial ownership information is accessible in a timely manner
4. enhancing the resources of the FIU and improving competent authorities’ use of financial intelligence
5. enhancing the investigation and prosecution of ML and TF
6. ensuring measures to prevent the abuse of NPOs for TF are targeted, proportionate, and risk-based and do not disrupt or discourage legitimate activities within the NPO sector
7. implementing TF-and PF-related targeted financial sanctions without delay

In particular, the FATF is especially concerned about Venezuela’s approach to conducting oversight of the NPO sector; the FATF calls on Venezuela to urgently consider whether certain sections of the November 2024 NPO law should be re-examined and potentially altered so that it is in line with the FATF’s risk-based approach for supervision of the NPO sector and the FATF’s best practices on Recommendation 8.

Source : Déclaration du GAFI, octobre 2026