Barbados seen as needing to do more on suspicious financial transactions

(Barbados Nation) THERE IS A SUGGESTION that law-enforcement and regulatory officials here may not be carrying out sufficient investigations and prosecuting people reported to the Financial Intelligence Unit of Barbados (FIU) for suspicious transactions. In addition, Eamon Kearney, a member of the Eastern Caribbean financial advisory team, has questioned why current legislation did not allow confiscating the assets of criminals in Barbados. Kearney articulated his reservations during the eighth Anti Money Laundering And Combating The Financing Of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Compliance Conference at Frank Collymore Hall last Thursday.