Announce stance on terror funding, AMLO chief says
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The Anti-Money Laundering Office will ask the Justice minister to endorse a list of 291 people and firms classified as international terrorists or terror groups by the UN Security Council, the AMLO chief said yesterday.
AMLO secretary-general Sihanart Prayoonrat said the agency had received the list from the Foreign Ministry. It will ask Justice Minister Pracha Promnok to issue an order to endorse the list and announce it.
Sihanart said the terrorists were not Thais but 227 foreigners and 64 foreign firms.
He said the government needs to announce the list so he can inform the next meeting of the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering that Thailand has joined the fight against money laundering by terrorists. This would help to get Thailand off the watch-list, he said.
