SANA'A, July 12 (Saba) – Speaker of the Parliament Yahya al-Rae'i met on Monday a team of project to strengthen the fight against money-laundering and terrorism-financing at the Studies and Economic Media Center (SEMC).

The two sides discussed arrangements for the consultative meeting with the parliament's members (MPs) to activate the law against money-laundering and terror- financing, which is organized by the center on Saturday in cooperation with the Middle East Partnership Initiative.

 They stressed the importance of reaching a common vision to activate the performance of the audit institutions on issues of money laundering and financing terrorism.

 Al-Rae'i voiced the parliament's readiness to cooperate with the center for the success of the project, noting the importance of law that was passed by the parliament earlier this year.

Experts from the committee on combating money laundering and the parliament will review, in the meeting, the control efforts on the issues of money laundering and financing terrorism, regulations of the law, and mechanisms to activate the audit in various financial and banking institutions, including the parliamentary oversight.

Head of the SEMC explained to Saba that the project included training departments of anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism financing in the banks as well as the security and judicial institutions and all those concerned with issues of money laundering and terrorism financing on skills of auditing money-laundering cases and investigating them.