In order to achieve our missions, we have the following objectives;

a. to issue the reporting forms and methods which should be used by the reporting organizations, to receive and maintain the submitted reports in the database;

b. to conduct operational analysis to identify specific targets, to follow the trail of particular activities or transactions, and to determine links between those targets and possible proceeds of crime, money laundering, predicate offences or terrorist financing;

c. to conduct strategic analysis to identify money laundering and terrorist financing related trends and patterns;

d. to disseminate, spontaneously and upon request, information and the results of analysis to relevant competent authorities;

e. to access and obtain additional information from reporting entities, government agencies and other sources for analysis;

f. to co-operate with domestic and international organizations for anti- money laundering , countering the financing of terrorism and combating predicate offences;

g. to provide awareness, training and assistance to reporting entities, competent authorities, law enforcement agencies and relevant government agencies;

Functions of Financial Intelligence Unit are as follow;

a. receiving the suspicious transaction reports from reporting entities, other reports and information;

b. maintaining the information received from the reporting entities and other relevant agencies in the FIU database system;

c. analyzing the received information operationally and strategically; herein comparing to the information maintained in FIU, the information received from other relevant agencies and public sources whether it relate to ML, TF and predicate offences or not, and identifying trends and patterns relating to ML/TF;

d. disseminating, sharing results of analyze, if it has reasonable ground to suspect to ML/TF, to law enforcement agencies and requesting additional information from relevant organizations;

e. co-operating with local and international organizations to investigate the cases related with ML/TF;

f. exchanging the information, trends and typologies on ML/TF and co-operating with regional and international

organizations and other countries;

g. providing awareness, training and assistance to reporting entities, competent authorities, law enforcement agencies and relevant government agencies;