新德里 巴基斯坦正与亚太反洗钱组织合作,推进其打击恐怖融资措施的改革,并将在适当时候接受评估,金融行动特别工作组(FATF)主席吉尔斯·汤姆森周五表示。汤姆森拒绝透露周五在巴黎结束的FATF全体会议上关于巴基斯坦讨论的细节,理由是这些内容属于机密,仅表示巴基斯坦“将在几年内接受亚太组的进一步评估”。
New DelhiPakistan is working with the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering to take forward its reforms of measures to counter terror financing and will be subject to an evaluation in due course, Financial Action Task Force (FATF) president Giles Thomson said on Friday. Thomson declined to go into details of discussions on Pakistan at the FATF plenary meeting that concluded in Paris on Friday on the grounds that they were confidential and only said that Pakistan “will be subject to a further evaluation by the APG in a few years”.The Indian side raised Pakistan’s failure to crack down on the activities of UN-designated terrorist and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar during the FATF meeting, people familiar with the matter said.
知情人士称,印方在FATF会议上提出了巴基斯坦未能遏制联合国指定恐怖分子、穆罕默德军(JeM)首领马苏德·阿扎尔活动的问题。他们表示,印度的论据基于塔利班政权最近否认巴基斯坦关于阿扎尔目前身在阿富汗的说法。
India’s case was based on the Taliban regime’s recent denial of Pakistan’s claim that Azhar is currently in Afghanistan, they said.“The subject of our discussions in the plenary remain confidential,” Thomson told a news conference at the conclusion of the plenary meeting.
“我们在全体会议上的讨论主题属于机密,”汤姆森在全体会议结束时的新闻发布会上表示。“我无法透露会议期间讨论或未讨论的内容,因为这是机密。”针对关于伊斯兰堡打击穆罕默德军恐怖融资活动努力的提问,他说:“巴基斯坦正与亚太反洗钱组织——亚太组是FATF类型的区域性组织——合作,继续推进其改革以及您提到的那些问题,巴基斯坦的形势评估将在亚太组下一次对巴基斯坦进行相互评估时予以审查。”
“I can’t disclose what was or wasn’t discussed in the course of our meetings as that’s confidential.”Responding to a question about Islamabad’s efforts to counter the terror financing activities of the JeM, he said: “Pakistan is working with the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering – the APG is the FATF-style body – to continue to progress its reforms and those issues that you referred to and the assessment of the situation in Pakistan is what will be examined by the APG when they evaluate Pakistan in their next mutual evaluation.”
汤姆森重申,巴基斯坦处于“与亚太组的持续接触中,并将在适当时候接受未来的评估”。他补充说,巴基斯坦“在列入灰名单期间曾接受FATF的严格行动计划”。
Thomson reiterated that Pakistan is subject to an “ongoing engagement with the APG and a future evaluation in due course”. He added that Pakistan “was subject to a robust action plan from the FATF when it was on the grey list”.
“它完成了行动计划,并于2022年10月退出了灰名单,”他说。
“It completed the action plan and came off the grey list in October 2022,” he said.
这是英国人汤姆森担任主席后,金融行动特别工作组(FATF)召开的首次全体会议。来自该金融监督机构全球网络中200多个司法管辖区和观察员组织的代表齐聚巴黎,讨论对全球金融诚信和安全构成的不断演变的威胁。
This was the first FATF plenary meeting under the presidency of Thomson of the UK, and delegates from across the financial watchdog’s global network of more than 200 jurisdictions and observer organisations gathered in Paris to discuss evolving threats to global financial integrity and security.
印度方面聚焦于阿扎尔,新德里因其涉及多起恐怖袭击而通缉他,如2001年议会袭击、2016年巴坦科特空军基地袭击和2019年普尔瓦马爆炸案。此前,塔利班政权驳回了巴基斯坦官员关于圣战组织(JeM)创始人自2019年以来一直在阿富汗的说法。
The Indian side focused on Azhar, wanted by New Delhi for several terror attacks such as the 2001 Parliament strike, the 2016 Pathankot airbase assault and the 2019 Pulwama bombing, after the Taliban regime dismissed the contention of Pakistani officials that the JeM founder has been in Afghanistan since 2019.
印度上个月还敦促巴基斯坦对其领土上的制裁恐怖分子采取行动,而不是诉诸“花招”,例如宣布对阿扎尔悬赏的“虚假公告”。巴基斯坦已对阿扎尔维持700万巴基斯坦卢比的悬赏数年。
India also urged Pakistan last month to act against sanctioned terrorists based on its soil instead of resorting to “gimmicks” such as a “phoney announcement” of a bounty for Azhar. Pakistan has maintained a bounty of Pakistani ₹7 million for Azhar for several years.
巴基斯坦因未能打击恐怖融资,特别是圣战组织(JeM)和虔诚军(LeT)的筹资和非法金融交易,以及其反洗钱框架存在系统性缺陷,于2018至2022年被列入金融行动特别工作组(FATF)接受“强化监管”的“灰名单”国家名单。其对联合国指定恐怖分子实施金融制裁不力,以及恐怖主义起诉和定罪有限,也被列为问题。
Pakistan was placed on the FATF’s “grey list” of countries subject to enhanced monitoring during 2018-22 for its failure to counter terror financing, particularly fund-raising and illegal financial transactions by JeM and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), and systemic deficiencies in its anti-money laundering framework. It was also cited for its weak implementation of financial sanctions on UN-designated terrorists, and limited terror prosecutions and convictions.
金融行动特别工作组(FATF)周五敦促缅甸采取行动,解决“源自该国的大规模欺诈和诈骗活动”,这些活动构成重大且日益增长的非法金融风险。
The FATF urged Myanmar on Friday to take action to address “extensive fraud and scam activities emanating from the country” that present significant and growing illicit finance risks.
汤普森表示,金融监管机构发出了“严厉警告,如果我们继续看到缅甸行动计划缺乏进展,将采取升级行动”。汤普森说,FATF还呼吁处于“黑名单”上的伊朗解决“与其法律框架相关的根本性缺陷,该框架未能充分将恐怖主义融资定罪,且未能按照FATF标准建立有针对性的金融制裁制度”。
Thomson said the financial watchdog gave “a firm warning of escalated action if we continue to see lack of progress on Myanmar’s action plan”.The FATF also called on Iran, which is on the “black list”, to address “fundamental deficiencies related to its legal framework which does not adequately criminalise terrorist financing and fails to establish a targeted financial sanctions regime in line with FATF standards”, Thomson said.