Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units

This article is about the network of financial intelligence units. For the publishing company, see Egmont Group.
Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units
Formation1995; 29 years ago (1995)
Founded atEgmont Palace, Brussels, Belgium
HeadquartersOttawa, Ontario, Canada[1][2]
Membership
See below
Chair
Elżbieta Franków- Jaśkiewicz[3]
Websiteegmontgroup.org

The Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units is an international organization that facilitates cooperation and intelligence sharing between national financial intelligence units (FIUs) to investigate and prevent money laundering and terrorist financing. National FIUs collect information on suspicious or unusual financial activity and are responsible for processing and analyzing the information received. FIUs are normally not law enforcement agencies themselves, findings are shared with appropriate law enforcement or prosecution bodies if sufficient evidence of unlawful activity is found. The Egmont Group is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.[1]

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  3. ^ "Leadership".