The Financial Information Unit (UIF) of Angola authorized, in 2020, the blocking of 47 bank accounts, belonging to entities involved in various investigative processes. The account blocking allows the control of more than seven million euros.

The fight against money laundering, terrorist financing and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in a coordinated and aligned manner involves all entities of the economy. This is why the UIF authorized, in 2020, the blocking of 47 bank accounts. Of the total blocked accounts, upon request for prior authorization, there are also two million 305 thousand 792 US dollars 28 cents (1,437,802,791.62 Kz), as well as one billion 43 million 637 thousand 839 kwanzas and 54 cents (1,043,637,839.54), according to the report/2020 of the FIU, to which ANGOP had access on Thursday. Among these accounts, more than 50% have been confirmed by the competent body, which has opened the respective investigation processes, according to the document. Compared to 2019, the results for 2020 are lower than the same year, which recorded a total of six billion 400 million kwanzas, due to the blocking of 25 bank accounts. In addition, in 2020, the UIF received 231 thousand 99 Cash Transaction Declarations (DTN), compared to 273 thousand 592 recorded in 2019, i.e. a decrease of 42 thousand 493 of these documents.