Iran stresses need for roadmap for campaign against money laundering

Tehran, Sept 7, IRNA – Iran’s 1st vice president here Monday emphasized the need for cooperation among three branches of power in the campaign against money laundering based on a solid and comprehensive roadmap.

According to the information website of the Presidential Office, Mohammad-Reza Rahimi made the above statement in the session of the Headquarters for Campaign against Economic Corruption adding that “acquirement of any illegitimate income is forbidden in the holy jurisprudence of Islam, which is why campaign against money laundering is Haram (forbidden for Muslims).”

He reiterated that the "main sources for illegally and illegitimately earned incomes should be identified and uprooted.”

At the session, moves were also made to devise a set of regulations for campaign against money laundering and were presented to the audience in a report prepared jointly by the Secretariat of Campaign against Money Laundering, the Central Bank, the Customs Organization and a number of other concerned organizations.

Also, in accordance with a suggestion made in the report by the Secretariat of Campaign against Money Laundering, it was decided that the related reports prepared by the banks and the other concerned offices, such as the insurance organizations, the tax offices and the customs clearance centers would be delivered for final decision making to the Secretariat of Campaign against Money Laundering maximum within three months after the issuance of the related state order./end