Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) – The Burkinabe government announced on Wednesday that 86 billion CFAF have been laundered in 2015 when the country was under the transitional regime following the fall of president Compaoré, ousted by a popular uprising.
In a communiqué issued here at the end of the weekly council of ministers, the government said “In 2015, we found out that money laundered represented a financial amount of about 86 billion CFAF,” adding that this explains that the treatment of all dossiers had resulted in 27 financial investigation reports submitted to the country’s prosecution for legal proceedings.
However, the government had decided to reactivate the national financial information treatment centre (CENTIF) established in 2006.
CENTIF is an administrative interministerial body in charge of gathering and treating financial information regarding the fight against money laundering and terrorism financing (LBC/FT).
The communiqué said that through its training, information and sensitization actions, CENTIF has played a key role in unveiling acts of money laundering and terrorism financing (LBC/FT).
