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Madagascar Agency Suspended from Network Tracking Money Laundering

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malagasy Ariary and Euros via  Teraka Andriatsoa blog - Public Domain  [1]

Malagasy Ariary currency and Euros via Teraka Randriantsoa blog – Public Domain

Lambo T. reports [2] [fr] on the website of La Gazette de La Grande Ile that Samifin [3] [mg], the agency in charge of cleaning up the financial sector and combat transnational illegal operations in Madagascar has been suspended from the Egmont Group of financial intelligence units [4]. Egmont is an international network that helps tracks money laundering or terrorism financing. Lambo T. explains that the current administration's failure to move forward on a Bill against terrorism and transnational organized crime that led to Samifin's suspension.