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Sanctions:
As a member of the EU, the country is party to all EU Sanctions
as well as UN sanctions.
____________________________________________________
Offshore Jurisdiction Blacklists:
Information unavailable.
____________________________________________________
US State Department Money Laundering Report - 2011:
Although Sweden is not considered a major money laundering
country, money laundering in Sweden is a growing concern.
According to statistics from the Swedish financial intelligence unit
(FIU), the amount of suspected money laundering transactions
totaled $882.8 million in 2009.
Money laundering in Sweden occurs primarily through criminal
proceeds being integrated and turned over in the financial system
or with the help of corporations that use financial system services.
Money laundering is further facilitated by criminals having
contacts, influence or control over corporations within the financial
system. Laundered money emanates from narcotics, tax fraud,
economic crimes, robbery, and organized crime and is
concentrated primarily in Sweden’s large urban regions. Public
corruption is not a serious issue in Sweden.
There is not a significant market for smuggled goods in Sweden.
Sweden is not an offshore financial center. The police estimate
that between 10-15 percent of the payment transfers that take
place in the approximately one hundred underground banking
outlets and through the hawala system are reported as suspicious
transfers. Operators of informal remittance systems are expected
to apply Swedish bookkeeping regulations and can be prosecuted
if they do not. According to the FIU, suspicious transaction reports
(STRs) reveal money leaving Sweden is most often destined for
Nigeria, Ghana, Iran, China, the United Kingdom, Thailand,
Turkey and the Philippines. Money entering Sweden, cited in
STRs, comes from Estonia, Italy, United Arab Emirates, United
Kingdom, U.S.A, Turkey, China, and Congo.
DO FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ENGAGE IN CURRENCY
TRANSACTIONS RELATED TO INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
TRAFFICKING THAT INCLUDE SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF US
CURRENCY; CURRENCY DERIVED FROM ILLEGAL SALES IN
THE U.S.; OR THAT OTHERWISE SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECT THE
U.S.: NO
CRIMINALIZATION OF MONEY LAUNDERING:
All serious crimes approach or list approach to predicate crimes:
All serious crimes
Legal persons covered: criminally: YES civilly: YES
CRIMINALIZATION OF TERRORIST FINANCING:
Ability to freeze terrorist assets without delay: YES
UN lists of designated terrorists or terrorist entities distributed to
financial institutions: YES
(Please refer to the Department of State’s Country Reports on
Terrorism, which can be found here; http://www.state.
gov/s/ct/rls/crt/)
KNOW-YOUR-CUSTOMER RULES:
Covered entities: Financial institutions, insurance companies,
securities firms, currency exchange houses, providers of
electronic money, money transfer companies, accounting firms,
law firms, tax counselors, casinos, gambling enterprises and
lottery ticket sale outlets, real estate brokers, and dealers of
vehicles, art, antiques and jewelry
Enhanced due diligence procedures for PEPs: Foreign: YES
Domestic: YES
SUSPICIOUS TRANSACTION REPORTING REQUIREMENTS:
Covered entities: Banks, non-bank financial institutions,
independent and certified public accountants, tax advisors, real
estate agents, casinos, life insurance and securities companies,
insurance brokers, fund companies, companies that issue
electronic money, and dealers in antiques, art, precious stones,
metals and transport equipment
Number of STRs received and time frame: 9,137 in 2009
Number of CTRs received and time frame: Not applicable
MONEY LAUNDERING CRIMINAL
PROSECUTIONS/CONVICTIONS:
Prosecutions: Not available
Convictions: Not available
Assets forfeited: criminally: Not available civilly: Not available
RECORDS EXCHANGE MECHANISM:
With U.S.: YES
With other governments/jurisdictions: YES
Sweden is a member of Financial Action Task Force. Its most
recent mutual evaluation can be found here: http://www.fatf-gafi.
org/dataoecd/58/30/46253171.pdf
ENFORCEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES AND
COMMENTS:
Most often money laundering is prosecuted as tax evasion, if no
other direct connection to crime is found. Less than one percent
of the businesses subject to reporting requirements filed charges
of money laundering with the FIU in 2009.
In 2010 the Swedish Justice Department ordered a review of the
criminalization of money laundering. This inquiry will consider
whether the criminalization of money laundering needs to be
simplified and clarified, and whether the criminal scope of money
laundering should be extended. There is limited co-operation, co-
ordination and information sharing among the appropriate
authorities and organizations before the stage of preliminary
investigation of a suspected crime. This weakness should be
remedied through the establishment of a network, working group
or similar body involving the relevant authorities and
organizations.
Financial institutions are aware of the legal obligation to freeze
terrorist assets. However, Sweden has issued insufficient
guidance to financial institutions on how to deal with funds of
targeted assets and persons. In addition, there is a lack of a
national mechanism to consider requests for freezing from other
countries (outside the EU mechanism) or to freeze the funds of
EU citizens/residents. Additionally, as the scope of the terrorist
financing offense does not specifically include funds to be used
by a terrorist organization or an individual terrorist for any
purpose, the scope of the law may not be compliant with
international standards.
____________________________________________________
US State Dept Narcotics Report 2011 (introduction):
No report available
____________________________________________________
US State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report 2011
(introduction):
(Tier 1)
Sweden is a destination, source, and, to a lesser extent, a transit
country for women and children subjected to sex trafficking.
Women, men, and children are also subjected to forced labor and
forced criminal behavior, including begging and stealing. Swedish
police have estimated that 400 to 600 persons are subjected to
human trafficking, primarily in sex trafficking, in Sweden annually.
Foreign victims of sex trafficking originate from Romania, Russia,
Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Albania, Estonia, Nigeria,
Tanzania, Kenya, Thailand, China, Uzbekistan, and Mongolia; in
2010, one third of identified victims were children. Among Swedish
nationals, some mentally or physically handicapped individuals
reportedly were exploited in sexual servitude. According to a
government report, 12 percent of Swedish girls and four percent
of Swedish boys placed in state-run youth care homes sold sex
for drugs or money. Although sex trafficking has been the
dominant type of human trafficking in Sweden, forced labor and
forced criminal behavior also increased this year. Victims of
forced labor originated from Romania, Thailand, Bangladesh,
Vietnam, Latvia, and Estonia. Government officials and NGOs
report that forced labor occurs in domestic service, the hospitality
industry, and in the gardening, construction, and seasonal
agriculture sectors. Some foreign migrants recruited for berry-
picking reportedly experience conditions indicative of forced labor,
including substandard working and living conditions, low or
withheld pay, confiscation of passports, and imposition of large
debts by labor intermediaries. Eastern Europeans, many of Roma
origin, have been subjected to forced begging and stealing in
Sweden. The approximately 2,400 unaccompanied foreign
children who arrived in Sweden in 2010, primarily from
Afghanistan and Somalia, were vulnerable to human trafficking;
some have gone missing since their arrival in Sweden. Child sex
tourism offenses committed by Swedish nationals traveling abroad
remain a problem; Swedish citizens traveling abroad commit an
estimated 4,000-5,000 acts of child sexual exploitation annually.
The Government of Sweden fully complies with the minimum
standards for the elimination of trafficking. It produced new
guidelines for combating trafficking, produced awareness raising
campaigns, made new efforts to stem labor trafficking, and
developed specialized trainings responsive to trafficking trends in
the country. The government proactively identified more
trafficking victims. It also funded studies of its own anti-trafficking
policies and activities and produced reports on labor trafficking.
Nevertheless, the judiciary continued to award light sentences for
trafficking in persons offenses, including in cases involving very
aggravated circumstances. Furthermore, the government’s anti-
trafficking program remains overwhelmingly oriented toward the
combating of sex trafficking to the exclusion of the growing trend
of individuals exploited for labor in the country.
For full report click here
____________________________________________________
US State Dept Terrorism Report 2010
Overview: The Swedish Security Service (SAPO), the authority
with the main responsibility for countering terrorism, distinguished
between attack and activity threats in its annual terrorism report
presented in June. According to SAPO, attack threats, which
include plans to carry out attacks in Sweden and/or against
Swedish interests abroad, remained low during the reporting
period, though SAPO had noted the presence of individuals who
were planning, supporting, or financing terrorist attacks in areas
of conflict and even stated that Swedish nationals were
contributing to terrorism in Somalia.
In October, however, SAPO – for the first time ever – raised the
National Threat Advisory to “elevated,” based on information from
the National Center for Terrorism, which discussed an increased
threat of potential terrorist attacks towards Sweden and changed
activity within certain environments. On December 11, a car bomb
device was detonated minutes before Sweden’s first ever suicide
bomber carried out an attack in a crowded pedestrian area in
Stockholm. A few weeks later, on December 29, five individuals
were arrested in Sweden and Denmark.
A number of individuals with connections extremist networks --
primarily al-Qa’ida (AQ) and al-Shabaab -- continued to depart
Sweden for training camps in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and
Iraq.
2010 Terrorist Incidents: Since 2007 when Swedish artist Lars
Vilks portrayed the Prophet Mohammed as a cartoon dog,
Sweden has become a more prominent target for violent
extremists. In November, an al-Shabaab fighter named Abu Zaid
appeared in a propaganda video in which he, in fluent Swedish,
urged Muslims in Sweden to kill Vilks and to move to Somalia. In
May, Vilks’ house was attacked with Molotov cocktails and two
brothers of Swedish-Kosovarian origin, Mentor and Mensur Alija,
were arrested and later convicted of arson.
On December 11, Sweden’s first ever suicide bomber, a 28 year-
old Swedish citizen of Iraqi descent, Taimour Abdulwahab al-
Abdaly, carried out two attacks in a pedestrian shopping area in
central Stockholm. In the first explosion, al-Abdaly detonated his
abandoned car, slightly wounding two passersby. Authorities
believed that al-Abdaly accidently triggered one of the pipe
bombs attached to his body, killing himself prematurely on a side
street. Shortly before the attack, al-Abdaly sent prerecorded
audio clips in Swedish, English, and Arabic to Swedish News
Agency TT and to SAPO, in which he cited the presence of
Swedish troops in Afghanistan and Lars Vilks as justification for
his actions. The investigation was ongoing at year’s end.
Legislation and Law Enforcement: On December 1, Sweden’s new
terrorism legislation came into effect, which criminalizes incitement
to recruit and train for terrorism activities. The original legislation
from 2003 did not clearly specify these activities.
On December 8, Gothenburg District Court convicted two Swedish
citizens of Saudi Arabian and Somali origin of conspiracy to
commit terrorist crimes and sentenced both men to four years
imprisonment. According to the court, both men are supporters of
al-Shabaab and had an agreement to carry out suicide attacks on
behalf of the organization in Somalia. Both defendants appealed
the verdict on December 29.
On December 29, five individuals were arrested (four in Denmark
and one in Sweden) for conspiracy to commit terrorist crimes
when planning to attack the newspaper Jyllands-Posten in
Denmark.
Countering Terrorist Finance: At the Financial Action Task Force’s
(FATF) October 2010 Plenary, Sweden was recognized for the
“significant progress” it had made in addressing deficiencies
identified in its Mutual Evaluation Report. In 2010, the Swedish
government allocated extra funds to the Financial Supervisory
Authority to continue combating money laundering and terrorism
financing. Swedish law does not give the government independent
authority to freeze or seize assets, unless in connection with an
ongoing criminal investigation. Sweden followed EU decisions on
freezing assets of entities and persons listed on the UNSCR 1267
Sanctions Committee (for the Taliban and AQ) list and in
accordance with UNSCR 1373.
Regional and International Cooperation: Sweden contributed to
counterterrorism capacity building projects through its
development aid work carried out by Swedish International
Development Agency, the UN, EU, and OSCE. Sweden
contributed funds to the Center for Global Counterterrorism
Cooperation to arrange a workshop in Jakarta concerning the
possible establishment of a regional education center in Dhaka,
Bangladesh, which would contribute to regional stability and
enhance the region’s capacity to prevent and counter terrorism.
Together with Germany, Sweden supported a visitors program in
Sweden for Afghan representatives as part of the UN Office of
Drugs and Crime’s training program “Strengthening of the legal
sector in the fight against terrorism.” Sweden provided trainers to
the EU’s Training Mission to assist with the training of Somalia’s
Transitional Federal Government security forces.
Countering Radicalization and Violent Extremism: In February, the
Swedish government mandated SAPO to map violent extremism in
Sweden. According to the mandate, SAPO was to look into: 1) the
existence of violent extremism, 2) the radicalization processes,
and 3) tools and strategies needed to counter radicalization. The
report was presented December 15 and concluded that there are
about 200 individuals in Sweden involved in violent extremist
activities. The largest identified threat comes from “returnees”
who come to Sweden after being in training camps or participating
in attacks abroad. In the past five years, about 30 individuals
have traveled abroad, most to Somalia, Pakistan, and
Afghanistan, and at least four have died. SAPO continued to work
to identify individuals planning to travel to training camps, held
dialogues with them to try to prevent their travel, and spoke with
persons who were suspected of returning from such travel.
As a member of the EU, the country is party to all EU Sanctions
as well as UN sanctions.
____________________________________________________
Offshore Jurisdiction Blacklists:
Information unavailable.
____________________________________________________
US State Department Money Laundering Report - 2011:
Although Sweden is not considered a major money laundering
country, money laundering in Sweden is a growing concern.
According to statistics from the Swedish financial intelligence unit
(FIU), the amount of suspected money laundering transactions
totaled $882.8 million in 2009.
Money laundering in Sweden occurs primarily through criminal
proceeds being integrated and turned over in the financial system
or with the help of corporations that use financial system services.
Money laundering is further facilitated by criminals having
contacts, influence or control over corporations within the financial
system. Laundered money emanates from narcotics, tax fraud,
economic crimes, robbery, and organized crime and is
concentrated primarily in Sweden’s large urban regions. Public
corruption is not a serious issue in Sweden.
There is not a significant market for smuggled goods in Sweden.
Sweden is not an offshore financial center. The police estimate
that between 10-15 percent of the payment transfers that take
place in the approximately one hundred underground banking
outlets and through the hawala system are reported as suspicious
transfers. Operators of informal remittance systems are expected
to apply Swedish bookkeeping regulations and can be prosecuted
if they do not. According to the FIU, suspicious transaction reports
(STRs) reveal money leaving Sweden is most often destined for
Nigeria, Ghana, Iran, China, the United Kingdom, Thailand,
Turkey and the Philippines. Money entering Sweden, cited in
STRs, comes from Estonia, Italy, United Arab Emirates, United
Kingdom, U.S.A, Turkey, China, and Congo.
DO FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ENGAGE IN CURRENCY
TRANSACTIONS RELATED TO INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
TRAFFICKING THAT INCLUDE SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF US
CURRENCY; CURRENCY DERIVED FROM ILLEGAL SALES IN
THE U.S.; OR THAT OTHERWISE SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECT THE
U.S.: NO
CRIMINALIZATION OF MONEY LAUNDERING:
All serious crimes approach or list approach to predicate crimes:
All serious crimes
Legal persons covered: criminally: YES civilly: YES
CRIMINALIZATION OF TERRORIST FINANCING:
Ability to freeze terrorist assets without delay: YES
UN lists of designated terrorists or terrorist entities distributed to
financial institutions: YES
(Please refer to the Department of State’s Country Reports on
Terrorism, which can be found here; http://www.state.
gov/s/ct/rls/crt/)
KNOW-YOUR-CUSTOMER RULES:
Covered entities: Financial institutions, insurance companies,
securities firms, currency exchange houses, providers of
electronic money, money transfer companies, accounting firms,
law firms, tax counselors, casinos, gambling enterprises and
lottery ticket sale outlets, real estate brokers, and dealers of
vehicles, art, antiques and jewelry
Enhanced due diligence procedures for PEPs: Foreign: YES
Domestic: YES
SUSPICIOUS TRANSACTION REPORTING REQUIREMENTS:
Covered entities: Banks, non-bank financial institutions,
independent and certified public accountants, tax advisors, real
estate agents, casinos, life insurance and securities companies,
insurance brokers, fund companies, companies that issue
electronic money, and dealers in antiques, art, precious stones,
metals and transport equipment
Number of STRs received and time frame: 9,137 in 2009
Number of CTRs received and time frame: Not applicable
MONEY LAUNDERING CRIMINAL
PROSECUTIONS/CONVICTIONS:
Prosecutions: Not available
Convictions: Not available
Assets forfeited: criminally: Not available civilly: Not available
RECORDS EXCHANGE MECHANISM:
With U.S.: YES
With other governments/jurisdictions: YES
Sweden is a member of Financial Action Task Force. Its most
recent mutual evaluation can be found here: http://www.fatf-gafi.
org/dataoecd/58/30/46253171.pdf
ENFORCEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES AND
COMMENTS:
Most often money laundering is prosecuted as tax evasion, if no
other direct connection to crime is found. Less than one percent
of the businesses subject to reporting requirements filed charges
of money laundering with the FIU in 2009.
In 2010 the Swedish Justice Department ordered a review of the
criminalization of money laundering. This inquiry will consider
whether the criminalization of money laundering needs to be
simplified and clarified, and whether the criminal scope of money
laundering should be extended. There is limited co-operation, co-
ordination and information sharing among the appropriate
authorities and organizations before the stage of preliminary
investigation of a suspected crime. This weakness should be
remedied through the establishment of a network, working group
or similar body involving the relevant authorities and
organizations.
Financial institutions are aware of the legal obligation to freeze
terrorist assets. However, Sweden has issued insufficient
guidance to financial institutions on how to deal with funds of
targeted assets and persons. In addition, there is a lack of a
national mechanism to consider requests for freezing from other
countries (outside the EU mechanism) or to freeze the funds of
EU citizens/residents. Additionally, as the scope of the terrorist
financing offense does not specifically include funds to be used
by a terrorist organization or an individual terrorist for any
purpose, the scope of the law may not be compliant with
international standards.
____________________________________________________
US State Dept Narcotics Report 2011 (introduction):
No report available
____________________________________________________
US State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report 2011
(introduction):
(Tier 1)
Sweden is a destination, source, and, to a lesser extent, a transit
country for women and children subjected to sex trafficking.
Women, men, and children are also subjected to forced labor and
forced criminal behavior, including begging and stealing. Swedish
police have estimated that 400 to 600 persons are subjected to
human trafficking, primarily in sex trafficking, in Sweden annually.
Foreign victims of sex trafficking originate from Romania, Russia,
Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Albania, Estonia, Nigeria,
Tanzania, Kenya, Thailand, China, Uzbekistan, and Mongolia; in
2010, one third of identified victims were children. Among Swedish
nationals, some mentally or physically handicapped individuals
reportedly were exploited in sexual servitude. According to a
government report, 12 percent of Swedish girls and four percent
of Swedish boys placed in state-run youth care homes sold sex
for drugs or money. Although sex trafficking has been the
dominant type of human trafficking in Sweden, forced labor and
forced criminal behavior also increased this year. Victims of
forced labor originated from Romania, Thailand, Bangladesh,
Vietnam, Latvia, and Estonia. Government officials and NGOs
report that forced labor occurs in domestic service, the hospitality
industry, and in the gardening, construction, and seasonal
agriculture sectors. Some foreign migrants recruited for berry-
picking reportedly experience conditions indicative of forced labor,
including substandard working and living conditions, low or
withheld pay, confiscation of passports, and imposition of large
debts by labor intermediaries. Eastern Europeans, many of Roma
origin, have been subjected to forced begging and stealing in
Sweden. The approximately 2,400 unaccompanied foreign
children who arrived in Sweden in 2010, primarily from
Afghanistan and Somalia, were vulnerable to human trafficking;
some have gone missing since their arrival in Sweden. Child sex
tourism offenses committed by Swedish nationals traveling abroad
remain a problem; Swedish citizens traveling abroad commit an
estimated 4,000-5,000 acts of child sexual exploitation annually.
The Government of Sweden fully complies with the minimum
standards for the elimination of trafficking. It produced new
guidelines for combating trafficking, produced awareness raising
campaigns, made new efforts to stem labor trafficking, and
developed specialized trainings responsive to trafficking trends in
the country. The government proactively identified more
trafficking victims. It also funded studies of its own anti-trafficking
policies and activities and produced reports on labor trafficking.
Nevertheless, the judiciary continued to award light sentences for
trafficking in persons offenses, including in cases involving very
aggravated circumstances. Furthermore, the government’s anti-
trafficking program remains overwhelmingly oriented toward the
combating of sex trafficking to the exclusion of the growing trend
of individuals exploited for labor in the country.
For full report click here
____________________________________________________
US State Dept Terrorism Report 2010
Overview: The Swedish Security Service (SAPO), the authority
with the main responsibility for countering terrorism, distinguished
between attack and activity threats in its annual terrorism report
presented in June. According to SAPO, attack threats, which
include plans to carry out attacks in Sweden and/or against
Swedish interests abroad, remained low during the reporting
period, though SAPO had noted the presence of individuals who
were planning, supporting, or financing terrorist attacks in areas
of conflict and even stated that Swedish nationals were
contributing to terrorism in Somalia.
In October, however, SAPO – for the first time ever – raised the
National Threat Advisory to “elevated,” based on information from
the National Center for Terrorism, which discussed an increased
threat of potential terrorist attacks towards Sweden and changed
activity within certain environments. On December 11, a car bomb
device was detonated minutes before Sweden’s first ever suicide
bomber carried out an attack in a crowded pedestrian area in
Stockholm. A few weeks later, on December 29, five individuals
were arrested in Sweden and Denmark.
A number of individuals with connections extremist networks --
primarily al-Qa’ida (AQ) and al-Shabaab -- continued to depart
Sweden for training camps in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and
Iraq.
2010 Terrorist Incidents: Since 2007 when Swedish artist Lars
Vilks portrayed the Prophet Mohammed as a cartoon dog,
Sweden has become a more prominent target for violent
extremists. In November, an al-Shabaab fighter named Abu Zaid
appeared in a propaganda video in which he, in fluent Swedish,
urged Muslims in Sweden to kill Vilks and to move to Somalia. In
May, Vilks’ house was attacked with Molotov cocktails and two
brothers of Swedish-Kosovarian origin, Mentor and Mensur Alija,
were arrested and later convicted of arson.
On December 11, Sweden’s first ever suicide bomber, a 28 year-
old Swedish citizen of Iraqi descent, Taimour Abdulwahab al-
Abdaly, carried out two attacks in a pedestrian shopping area in
central Stockholm. In the first explosion, al-Abdaly detonated his
abandoned car, slightly wounding two passersby. Authorities
believed that al-Abdaly accidently triggered one of the pipe
bombs attached to his body, killing himself prematurely on a side
street. Shortly before the attack, al-Abdaly sent prerecorded
audio clips in Swedish, English, and Arabic to Swedish News
Agency TT and to SAPO, in which he cited the presence of
Swedish troops in Afghanistan and Lars Vilks as justification for
his actions. The investigation was ongoing at year’s end.
Legislation and Law Enforcement: On December 1, Sweden’s new
terrorism legislation came into effect, which criminalizes incitement
to recruit and train for terrorism activities. The original legislation
from 2003 did not clearly specify these activities.
On December 8, Gothenburg District Court convicted two Swedish
citizens of Saudi Arabian and Somali origin of conspiracy to
commit terrorist crimes and sentenced both men to four years
imprisonment. According to the court, both men are supporters of
al-Shabaab and had an agreement to carry out suicide attacks on
behalf of the organization in Somalia. Both defendants appealed
the verdict on December 29.
On December 29, five individuals were arrested (four in Denmark
and one in Sweden) for conspiracy to commit terrorist crimes
when planning to attack the newspaper Jyllands-Posten in
Denmark.
Countering Terrorist Finance: At the Financial Action Task Force’s
(FATF) October 2010 Plenary, Sweden was recognized for the
“significant progress” it had made in addressing deficiencies
identified in its Mutual Evaluation Report. In 2010, the Swedish
government allocated extra funds to the Financial Supervisory
Authority to continue combating money laundering and terrorism
financing. Swedish law does not give the government independent
authority to freeze or seize assets, unless in connection with an
ongoing criminal investigation. Sweden followed EU decisions on
freezing assets of entities and persons listed on the UNSCR 1267
Sanctions Committee (for the Taliban and AQ) list and in
accordance with UNSCR 1373.
Regional and International Cooperation: Sweden contributed to
counterterrorism capacity building projects through its
development aid work carried out by Swedish International
Development Agency, the UN, EU, and OSCE. Sweden
contributed funds to the Center for Global Counterterrorism
Cooperation to arrange a workshop in Jakarta concerning the
possible establishment of a regional education center in Dhaka,
Bangladesh, which would contribute to regional stability and
enhance the region’s capacity to prevent and counter terrorism.
Together with Germany, Sweden supported a visitors program in
Sweden for Afghan representatives as part of the UN Office of
Drugs and Crime’s training program “Strengthening of the legal
sector in the fight against terrorism.” Sweden provided trainers to
the EU’s Training Mission to assist with the training of Somalia’s
Transitional Federal Government security forces.
Countering Radicalization and Violent Extremism: In February, the
Swedish government mandated SAPO to map violent extremism in
Sweden. According to the mandate, SAPO was to look into: 1) the
existence of violent extremism, 2) the radicalization processes,
and 3) tools and strategies needed to counter radicalization. The
report was presented December 15 and concluded that there are
about 200 individuals in Sweden involved in violent extremist
activities. The largest identified threat comes from “returnees”
who come to Sweden after being in training camps or participating
in attacks abroad. In the past five years, about 30 individuals
have traveled abroad, most to Somalia, Pakistan, and
Afghanistan, and at least four have died. SAPO continued to work
to identify individuals planning to travel to training camps, held
dialogues with them to try to prevent their travel, and spoke with
persons who were suspected of returning from such travel.
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* In October 2010, The FATF recognized that Sweden had made
significant progress in implementing the 49 recommendations and that
from that date it should report on a biennial basis on the actions it will
take in the AML/CFT area.
Please also note that any risk assessment should take into
consideration all follow-up reports.
significant progress in implementing the 49 recommendations and that
from that date it should report on a biennial basis on the actions it will
take in the AML/CFT area.
Please also note that any risk assessment should take into
consideration all follow-up reports.
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AML News / Updates
November 3, 2010 - FATF has agreed that Sweden has taken
sufficient action to address aml issues in previous mutual evaluations
and has therefore been taken off the regular follow-up process.
Read More.......
Links:
Worldwide AML Legislation (International Bar Association)
AML News / Updates
November 3, 2010 - FATF has agreed that Sweden has taken
sufficient action to address aml issues in previous mutual evaluations
and has therefore been taken off the regular follow-up process.
Read More.......
Links:
Worldwide AML Legislation (International Bar Association)
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