Attorney General Aiyaz-Sayed-Khaiyum has highlighted in Parliament that the Financial Intelligence Unit continues to work with Australian and New Zealand agencies and INTERPOL to tackle schemers who see Fiji as a destination to scheme funds.
While speaking on the Report on Fiji Financial Intelligence Unit Annual Report 2014, the Attorney General also highlighted that a few years back, people would turn up to buy houses with suitcases full of money.
He says that people have come to Fiji as supposed investors but are later found to be here to launder money adding that the Fiji Financial Intelligence Unit now has the ability to issue directives to financial institutions to ensure the integrity and safety of the Fiji Financial systems from abuse of money launders or criminals.
SODELPA MP, Viliame Gavoka says lately the Fiji Financial Intelligence Unit had a case involving the Mexican drug cartel and in order for them to continue to combat this huge network of crime, the unit needs strengthen our capacity to be able to combat these crimes.
