Police Brigadier General Myo Thu Soe,

Head of Myanmar Financial Intelligence Unit(MFIU)

Myanmar Financial Intelligence Unit (MFIU) serves as the central agency to receive, request and analyze the reports submitted by reporting entities and other information related to money laundering, financing of terrorism and predicate offences and to disseminate the result of analysis, and related information to relevant persons or organizations or internal and external counterpart agencies upon request or spontaneously, if it suspects that it relates to money laundering, financing of terrorism, or any predicate offences.

Myanmar Financial Intelligence Unit (MFIU) was established since 16th January 2004 according to the Control of Money Laundering Rules (CMLR). MFIU was reformed by the Anti-Money Laundering Central Board (AMLCB) on 28th August 2014 due to the CMLL was reviewed amended an promulgated as the Anti-Money Laundering Law (AMLL) in 2014. 

AMLCB issued order No. (3/2016) on 6th October 2016 by which Anti-Financial Crime Division has been designated as Financial Intelligence Unit. Therefore, Anti-Financial Crime Division is also Financial Intelligence Unit. 

Myanmar Financial Intelligence Unit is the central agency to cooperate with local and international organizations in order to take action effectively on ML/TF and predicate offences, and to prevent subsequent offences in accord with international conventions acceded by the State to prevent interference from criminals in executive, economic and social sectors through money laundering or financing of terrorism.