Anti-Money Laundering Office
| สำนักงานป้องกันและปราบปรามการฟอกเงิน | |
| Office overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 19 August 1999 |
| Jurisdiction | Kingdom of Thailand |
| Employees | 399 |
| Annual budget | 374.1 million baht (FY2017) |
| Office executive |
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| Website | AMLO |
The Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO), is Thailand's "...key agency responsible for enforcement of the anti-money laundering and the counter-terrorism financing law." It was founded in 1999 upon the adoption of the Anti-Money Laundering Act, B.E. 2542 (1999) (AMLA). AMLO is an independent governmental agency. It has the status of a department functioning independently and neutrally under the supervision of the minister of justice, but is not part of the justice ministry.
The AMLO 2015 Annual Report reported 369 persons employed as government officers plus 30 government employees. Its budget for FY2017 is 374.1 million baht. As of 2015[update] AMLO was headed by Secretary-General Police Colonel Seehanat Prayoonrat.
In April 2016, AMLO began investigating Thai nationals whose names surfaced in the Panama Papers.
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