Sept review could clear EU blacklisting

The review could clear the way from Botswana’s removal from the European Union’s dirty money blacklist. Officials appearing before the Public Accounts Committee this week said Botswana submitted its report to the FATF in April but reviewers could not come due to the outbreak of COVID-19. 

The EU, which lists countries according to the FATF reports, subsequently blacklisted Botswana. FATF, a global anti-money laundering organisation founded by the world's richest countries in the aftermath of the US terror attacks in 2001, will conduct the review this month.