Botswana improves rating in 2019 Basel AML Index

Dirty cash: Botswana is improving in its AML structures PIC: EMERJ.COM
Dirty cash: Botswana is improving in its AML structures PIC: EMERJ.COM

Since 2012, the Basel Institute on Governance in Switzerland has annually released the Basel Anti-Money Laundering Index.

The Index measures money laundering and terrorism financing (ML/TF) risk in countries, but not the actual volume of money laundering and terrorism financing activity.

Developed and maintained by the internationally renowned International Centre for Asset Recovery, which is part of the Basel Institute, the Index is the only independent, research-based framework which ranks countries according to their ML/TF risk.

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