On July 5, it was held at 8:00 a.m. at the Four Points By Sheraton hotel the second diffusion in the city of Medellín of the Regional Risk Assessment (ERR due to their name in spanish) UIAF 2018 together with the Regional Dialogues. The event was attended by nearly 300 compliance officers from all sectors of the national economy, as well as representatives of public and private entities in the coffee-growing region.
The opening ceremony was in charge of the Deputy Minister of Criminal Policy and Restorative Justice, Carlos Medina Ramírez; and the director of the UIAF, Juan Francisco Espinosa Palacios.
The ERR reflects the results of a perception survey in which more than five thousand compliance officers from across the country participated, as well as officials from public entities at the territorial level.
"The objective of the ERR of the UIAF is to be used as a reference for the construction of risk matrices and the updating or validation of the risk management systems," said the director of the Unit, Juan Francisco Espinosa Palacios.
At the national level, the report reveals that the five main economic activities that respondents perceive as vulnerable are: Real estate activities and buildings (43%), wholesale and retail trade (37%), games of chance (33 %), construction and civil works (31%) and non-profit organizations (25%).
While in the region of the Coffee Region the information was as follows: real estate by 50%, mining and quarrying with 43%, games of luck and chance by 42%, and livestock with 40%, it turns them into the activities that they perceive with greater vulnerability to money laundering and the financing of terrorism
On the other hand, the Regional Dialogues have the objective of strengthening the prevention and anti-money laundering of assets in Colombia.
"The regional dialogues seek to include a territorial view through dialogue with local actors from the public and private sectors to help determine the problems and identify actions or measures to address them," said Deputy Minister Carlos Medina
With the study, the managers were able to determine that it is in the Coffee Region where more measures are implemented to counter this money laundering, however, after the dissemination it is clear that measures must be intensified.
