Sensitisation of DNFIs on their Compliance Obligation

SCUML held a Two-Day Zonal Workshop for the Sensitisation of DNFIs on their Compliance Obligation in the Nigerian AML/CFT regime.
SCUML held a Two-Day Zonal Workshop for the Sensitisation of DNFIs on their Compliance Obligation in the Nigerian AML/CFT regime.
SCUML has its Head Office in Abuja and nine (9) Offices located in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Enugu, Kano, Kaduna, Gombe, Ibadan, Benin and Maiduguri. Operationally, SCUML is divided into five Sections as follows:
i. Compliance & Enforcement;SCUML was established by the Federal Government in September 2005 in compliance with the provisions of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2004 which was subsequently repealed and amended to Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2011(as amended).
SCUML was created as part of measures for the implementation of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Recommendations on Anti- Money Laundering /Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) in Nigeria.
The FATF requires Countries to implement 40 Recommendations which are
considered as international standard for combating money laundering and terrorist financing as well as the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
The recommendations include amongst others the establishment of Legal and Institutional framework for the effective implementation of the AML/CFT measures in all Countries. This led to the enactment of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended) and the Terrorism (Prevention) Act, 2011, (as amended) in Nigeria.
SCUML was created under the Money Laundering (Prohibition), Act, 2011 (as amended) to implement specific sections of the Act in line with the FATF recommendations for the implementation of AML/CFT measures within the Designated Non- Financial Institutions (DNFIs) Sector in Nigeria.
SCUML is statutorily under the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment but operationally domiciled within the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as the Commission drives the operational activities of the Unit in line with Sections 6(C) and 7(2) of the EFCC Establishment Act, 2004.
To be a world-class regulatory unit – one that becomes a benchmark in the supervision, monitoring and regulation of the Designated Non Financial Institutions (DNFI) as regards compliance to Nigeria’s Anti Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism AML/CFT regime’.
To serve as a structure for the curtailment of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in the DNFI sector, providing world class intelligence as regards AML/CFT issues to relevant stakeholders, and the sanitization of the DNFI sector to create an enabling environment for the inflow of foreign direct investment.
SCUML performs the following key functions to actualise its mandate:
SCUML has the mandate to monitor, supervise and regulate the activities of DNFIs in Nigeria in consonance with the Nigeria’s AML/CFT regime. The DNFIs as defined under section 25 of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended) are: