List of countries with a high risk of money laundering, terrorist financing or corruption (Ministerial Order no. 2025-219 of 30 April 2025)

Ministerial Order no. 2025-219 of 30 April 2025 (JDM no. 8746 of 9 May 2025) amends the list of States or territories whose anti-money laundering, countering the financing of terrorism or anti-corruption measures are strategically deficient, referred to in article 14-1 of Law no. 1. 362 of 3 August 2009, as amended, and set by Ministerial Order no. 2021-703 of 8 November 2021, in accordance with the FATF's decisions (Plenary meeting of 19 to 21 February 2025) and the European Union's list.

New national list: Afghanistan, South Africa, Algeria, Angola, Barbados, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, United Arab Emirates, Gibraltar, Haiti, Islamic Republic of Iran, Jamaica, Kenya, Lao PDR, Lebanon, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar/Burma, Namibia, Nepal, Nigeria, Uganda, Panama, Philippines, Senegal, South Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen.

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Sources :

• Decision to place the Lao People's Democratic Republic and Nepal on the list of jurisdictions under enhanced scrutiny, taken by the Financial Action Task Force at its plenary meeting from February 19 to 21, 2025;
• Decision to remove the Philippines from the list of jurisdictions under enhanced scrutiny, taken by the Financial Action Task Force at its plenary meeting from February 19 to 21, 2025. The Philippines nevertheless remains on the European Union list.

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