Tag: black list

• Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 04:40 UTC

  EU money laundering black list blocked following US and Saudi complaints

  

  The United States on Friday welcomed the blocking of a proposal to add a group of countries, including four American territories, to the EU money-laundering blacklist after almost all member states opposed it. The US ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, hit out at the “dogmatic posturing” of the European Commission, the bloc's executive arm.

• Saturday, June 26th 2010 - 05:32 UTC

  Ecuador removed from list of countries that do not combat money-laundering

  

  Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said on Friday his country had been removed from an international blacklist of countries who fail to comply with standards against money-laundering and terrorism financing.