Members of the Professional Association of Banks and Financial Institutions of Côte d'Ivoire (APBEF-CI) discussed corruption and related offenses at the Association's headquarters in Abidjan-Plateau on Wednesday, December 22, 2021. The meeting was initiated by the High Authority for Good Governance (HABG) with a view to preventing money laundering.

Bank agents were made aware of the harmful consequences of corruption, preventive and repressive measures, as well as the role and responsibility of banks and financial institutions in the prevention and fight against corruption and similar offences, in particular the money laundering. This awareness-raising aims to bring the managing directors, the legal managers of the various banking structures to immerse themselves in the legal and institutional mechanism for the fight against corruption and similar offences, to take the necessary measures to avoid money laundering or the use economic, financial and banking circuits for the purpose of recycling capital and other goods of illicit origin.