After Directorate for the Prevention of Money Laundering in Serbia has compiled a list of CSOs, media, and individuals requesting the banks to inspect their transactions in the last year, activating the law’s mechanism to investigate their possible participation in “money laundering” or terrorist financing, ECNL provided assistance to CSO to confront AML/CFT limitations and to submit a complaint to the UN Special Rapporteurs. Regarding this case, FATF issued a strong statement against states misusing security and counter-terrorism legal framework as justification to restrict civic freedoms. Read more here.
Source: ECNL