Pakistan in Top 50 Terror financing countries

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Fri, Sep 08, 2017, 04:26 PM

Pakistan in Top 50 Terror financing countries

Mumbai Sept 8: A Swiss group has conducted a survey and some shocking results were revealed

* Pakistan is among the 50 worst countries in terms of money laundering and terror financing.

* The study was conducted by Basel Institute on Governance.

* Pakistan stood at 46th position in the 146 list of countries.

* The results were published in Anti Money Laundering (AML) index 2017 released in August 2017

* The Basel AML Index measured the risk of money laundering and terrorist financing of countries based on publicly available sources.

* The scores of High-risk countries are as follows

* Pakistan 6.64
* Iran (8.6)
* Afghanistan (8.38)
* Guinea-Bissau (8.35)
* Tajikistan (8.28)
* Laos (8.28)
* Mozambique (8.08)
* Mali (7.97)
* Uganda (7.95)
* Cambodia (7.94)

The scores of low-risk countries are

* Finland 3.04
* Lithuania (3.67)
* Estonia (3.83)
* Bulgaria (3.87)
* New Zealand (3.91)
* Slovenia (4.02)
* Denmark (3.05).

* The index was classified 0-10. The lower number represents lower risk.
* Higher index represents higher risk.