Ambohijanaka, 19 March 2025. To consolidate the vision "Choose Madagascar" and securing the investing in Madagascar focus on extractive resources, SAMIFIN is working closely with OMNIS (Office of National Mines and Strategic Industries).

"Madagascar is fully member of EITI and this cooperation will help OMNIS to run due diligence on its actual and future partners,  and also to know the effective ownership of the contracting companies", said Mrs RASOLONIRINA Andry Nantenaina, General Director of OMNIS.

43 gendarme participated in a specialized training course on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT), organized by SAMIFIN.

This training session covered key topics such as interagency collaboration, financial investigation, and parallel investigations.

Specific modules such as environmental crime investigations and illicit asset recovery techniques were also included, delivered by TRAFFIC and ARAI.

SAMIFIN - FIU Madagascar participated in a workshop on the implementation of the FIU Madagascar The 2019 International Conference on the Protection of the Rights of the Child, which was held in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania on March 3-7 2025. This event is crucial for Madagascar in preventing ML/FT/FP as well as in protecting the country's economy against financial criminals.

Madagascar participated in the Training of Trainers on the assessment of risks related to beneficial owners in Cape Town.

The country was represented by SAMIFIN  and the General Directorate of Taxes, Ministry of Economy and Finance of Madagascar.

A training that brought together 16 African countries of ESAAMLG.

SAMIFIN participated in a workshop on virtual assets, organized by ECOFEL, on February 24-26, 2025 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.