{"id":37623,"date":"2026-06-20T16:44:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T14:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=37623"},"modified":"2026-06-20T16:44:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T14:44:54","slug":"namibia-removed-from-financial-crime-watchdogs-grey-list","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/namibia-removed-from-financial-crime-watchdogs-grey-list\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Namibia removed from financial crime watchdog&#8217;s grey list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia said on Friday that Paris-based financial crime watchdog the \u200bFinancial Action Task Force (FATF) was \u200cremoving it from its &#8220;grey list&#8221; of countries under special scrutiny to implement standards to \u200bprevent money laundering and terrorism \u200bfinancing.<\/p>\n<p>Namibia&#8217;s Finance Ministry said in a \u2060statement that the FATF made the \u200bannouncement on Friday afternoon at a \u200bplenary meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The FATF is wrapping up several days of meetings on Friday and is expected \u200bto announce the decisions of \u200bthose meetings later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>The FATF did \u200cnot \u2060immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Namibia was placed on the &#8216;grey list&#8217; in February 2024 due to \u200b13 deficiencies \u200bin its \u2060systems to combat money laundering and terrorism financing.<\/p>\n<p>The Southern \u200bAfrican country&#8217;s finance ministry said \u200ban \u2060on-site assessment by the FATF was successful after the watchdog earlier found \u2060it \u200bhad largely addressed the \u200b13 deficiencies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20401,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-37623","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Namibia was placed on the 'grey list' in February 2024.","published_date":"","news_description":"Namibia was placed on the 'grey list' in February 2024.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37624,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37623\/revisions\/37624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=37623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}