INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
In terms of the provisions of the Financial Transactions Reporting Act No
6 of 2006 (FTRA), the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of Sri Lanka entered into an agreement with INTERPOL National Central Bureau for Sri
Lanka (NCB Colombo) on October 11, 2019 at the Central Bank of Sri Lanka to obtain direct access to the INTERPOL Information System.
Senior
Deputy Inspector General of Police, Head of NCB Colombo, D W R B Seneviratne and
D M Rupasinghe, Director, FIU signed the agreement on behalf of the respective institutions in the presence of Dr
Indrajit Coomaraswamy, the Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, who is also the Chairman of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering
the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) National Coordinating Committee and C D Wickramaratne, Acting Inspector General of Police.
