FATF

In simple terms, tell us about the Financial Intelligence Authority, its mandate, and why it’s important for a country like Uganda? The background to this all was the phenomenal growth in organised crime in the 1980s. Very few people were getting convicted of organised crime especially drug trafficking because the drug traffickers (the mafias) in America and in Europe would find a way of making sure that witnesses don’t get to testify, either by killing them off or by intimidating them or bribing them off. The response by the justice system was that at least if you cannot prosecute the…