FinCEN hosts Regional Training Event in Botswana to combat money laundering

The training event brought together delegations from Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Namibia, and South Africa, along with facilitators and trainers from the United States and from Canada’s Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre, to improve the capabilities of government agencies to investigate and address priority illicit finance threats, including those related to the illegal wildlife trade (IWT). CIFT training is designed to provide capacity-building, case studies, and targeted training to personnel from participating governments’ financial intelligence units, law enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies, and prosecutors.