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Financial Intelligence Unit, Nepal FIU-Nepal

Official site
https://www.nrb.org.np/departments/fiu/
Established
2008
Constituting statute
Assets (Money) Laundering Prevention Act, 2008, section 9
Source pages

Who they are

FIU-Nepal is the national financial intelligence unit, set up on 21 April 2008 as an autonomous unit within Nepal Rastra Bank. It is not a separate legal entity from the central bank, but it has its own head, guidelines and reporting portal.

What they do

Receives suspicious transaction, suspicious activity and threshold transaction reports from financial institutions and designated non-financial businesses and professions through the goAML portal. It analyses them, passes intelligence to law enforcement and supervisors, exchanges information with foreign FIUs through the Egmont Group, and acts as secretariat to the AML coordination committee.

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