World-Check database
AMLAT has recently offered to fund access for fourteen Pacific Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) to the World-Check database of high risk individuals and companies.
This will provide Pacific FIUs with instant, on-line intelligence about money launderers, Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), fraudsters, terrorists and sanctioned entities.
World-Check is a highly-structured database that provides intelligence about known heightened-risk individuals and companies. The database can be searched to instantly check whether an individual or entity carries any known risk. Users also have access to a passport checking tool, which verifies the authenticity of machine readable passports, thereby confirming the identity of persons of interest whilst screening them against the World-Check database.
Countries involved in this venture include:
- Cook Islands
- Fiji
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Kiribati
- Nauru
- Niue
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Republic of Marshall Islands
- Samoa
- Solomon Islands
- Tonga
- Tuvalu, and
- Vanuatu.
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