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Just In: Mozambique exits FATF grey list in unanimous vote

11:39 CAT | 24 Oct 2025

File photo: Lusa

The plenary of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) proclaimed today in Paris that Mozambique has been removed from the international “grey list” for money laundering, three years after its inclusion, a Mozambican official told Lusa.

“Fully confirmed. At 09:30 today the FATF plenary, by unanimous vote of all organisations and countries, removed Mozambique from the grey list,” Luís Abel Cezerilo, the national coordinator for Mozambique’s removal from that list, told Lusa.

He added that the decision was approved with the recommendation that the country “work” on the “improvement of risk mapping.”

“The exit is done. It has already been proclaimed. Mozambique, South Africa, and Burkina Faso exited today,” said Cezerilo, who is also Deputy Director-General of the Mozambican Financial Intelligence Office (GIFiM).

Mozambique had been included on the FATF international money laundering “grey list” since 2022, but the Government announced in mid-2025 that it had already met all recommendations for its removal and that the goal was to ensure, after removal, the maintenance of this status in future evaluations.

“In the framework of efforts for the removal of Mozambique from the grey list, Mozambique has already complied with the 26 actions of the FATF plan, which led this institution to recognise the capacity of our institutions to prevent and combat money laundering and terrorist financing crimes,” Finance Minister Carla Loveira said on 16 June.

Minister Loveira is in Paris today attending the FATF plenary meeting.

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In September, Mozambique received a visit from FATF members, a stage described at the time as essential for the process of removing Mozambique from the “grey list.”

Source: Lusa