Attorney-General meets participants of anti-money laundering workshop

Doha: Attorney General H E Dr. Issa bin Saad Al Jafali Al Nuaimi yesterday met separately with a number of judicial and legal experts participating in...

Doha: Attorney General H E Dr. Issa bin Saad Al Jafali Al Nuaimi yesterday met separately with a number of judicial and legal experts participating in the “Improving the Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing Terrorism Regime” workshop, organised in Doha, by the Public Prosecution in cooperation with the US Departments of Justice and the Treasury, from October 20 to 23.

He met Jill Rose, Deputy Director of the US Justice Department’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training; Hon. Judge Frank D. Whitney, US District Judge for the Western District of North Carolina; Hon. Judge Dhari Jaber Farhood Karafi, Deputy Chief Public Prosecutor of Iraq; and Hon Judge Mohammed Al Amin Mohammed Al Amin, Attorney General of Mauritania. 

The meetings discussed regional and international efforts to combat money laundering and terrorism financing and ways to enhance cooperation between the judicial, executive and legislative authorities in this field, in addition to discussing the key topics on the programme of the workshop.