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5/14/2022 READOUT: At Strategic Dialogue on Illicit Finance, United States and Mexico Agree to Work on Anti-Corruption, Revitali… U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY READOUT: At Strategic Dialogue on Illicit Finance, United States and Mexico Agree to Work on Anti-Corruption, Revitalize Illicit Finance Cooperation May 13, 2022 MEXICO CITY – The United States and Mexico committed to establish a working group on anticorruption, focused primarily on a high-level strategic response to public corruption and in line with current Treasury e orts and the Biden Administrationʼs December 2021 “U.S. Strategy on Countering Corruption.” In May 2022, delegations from the United States and Mexico convened the Strategic Dialogue on Illicit Finance (SDIF) to advance anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) goals established under the U.S.-Mexico Bicentennial Framework. In support of the U.S.-Mexico Bicentennial Framework, o icials agreed to continue expanding information-sharing to bolster bilateral e orts to counter illicit finance. Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes Elizabeth Rosenberg cochaired the meeting with Mexicoʼs Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) Director Pablo Gomez Alvarez. The U.S. delegation to the SDIF included Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Acting Director Himamauli Das, representatives from the Department of Justice, Internal Revenue Service, and other U.S. government agencies. Mexico has been one of the United Statesʼ closest partners in combatting illicit finance and the dialogue, first established in 2014, has been a key bilateral operational forum for law enforcement and AML supervisory and policy o icials. This was the first in-person SDIF since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the dialogue, participants discussed how to move forward on major issue areas such as narcotics smuggling, evolving illicit finance threats, human smuggling and tra icking, corruption, and virtual assets. Assistant Secretary Rosenberg rea irmed Treasuryʼs commitment to work with Mexican partners to target the financial networks of transnational criminal organizations and corrupt individuals. O icials also agreed to revitalize joint work to target human tra ickers and trade-based money launderers given the threat they pose to both countries. https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0781 1/2 5/14/2022 READOUT: At Strategic Dialogue on Illicit Finance, United States and Mexico Agree to Work on Anti-Corruption, Revitali… https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0781 2/2
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