Amendments to the instructions of the Financial Investigation Unit of El Salvador

8 Sep, 2023 | BritCham News

Made by: Fernando Montano member of our partner Arias

By Resolution number 476, dated September 5th, 2023, the Attorney General approved a new set of amendments to the Instructions for the Prevention, Detection and Control of Asset and Money Laundering, Financing of Terrorism and Financing of the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (the “Instructions”).

The main aspects that must be considered regarding such amendments are the following: On the obligation that was originally established regarding the appointment of an external compliance auditor for the prevention of AML/FT/FPWMD…