The Financial Intelligence National Center personnel specialize in combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing crimes and the illegal transfer of funds across borders, which contributes to the operational and analytical side of the National Center, and also contributes to identifying local and international risks related to predicate crimes related to the crime of Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and illegal transfer of funds across borders, and monitor the most prominent methods and patterns used by criminals in order to study how to combat and reduce them.
The Financial Intelligence National Center is eager to build strong and reliable relationships with the regulators of Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions and Non-Profit Organizations, and to coordinate with them on reports of suspicious financial transactions related to Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing by monitoring the most prominent indicators related to the sectors and presenting them through awareness sessions and strategic studies.
Communication and cooperation with the relevant international authorities is one of the pillars of the Financial Intelligence National Center and is key to the framework of exchanging information related to combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing crimes and the illegal transfer of funds across borders. This aims to enhance international cooperation between the Financial Intelligence National Center and its counterpart Financial Intelligence Units at the regional and global levels, which complies with the provisions of the law in the Kingdom of Bahrain and enhances its international position.