The Mozambican government wants the country to be off the Financial Action Task Force's gray list by next June, an official source said yesterday.

Luis Cizerilo, deputy director-general of Mozambique's Financial Information Office, said that the country is taking significant steps to remove this negative rating, and is awaiting the latest report, which will be released in June.

The source, quoted by Rádio Moçambique, also said that the Financial Action Task Force had given Mozambique two years to improve its structure for preventing and combating money laundering and terrorist financing, starting in October 2022.

Cizerilo was speaking on the sidelines of a training seminar for magistrates and other players in the judiciary on mechanisms to prevent and combat money laundering and terrorist financing.