Pakistan, Indonesia join

And international money-laundering, said the International Energy Agency, Pakistan and Indonesia, Ghana, Tanzania and Thailand on Thursday to its blacklist of countries that fail to meet the international Financial Action standards.The Task Force (FATF) has found that these five countries and boast recommendations to them about anti-money laundering and terrorist financing, and said Executive Secretary, Rick McDonnell, and journalistsDid not take any state of the black list, but removed from Honduras, Paraguay and broker, "a list of gray" of States found to be lagging behind international standards, although committed to them.We are looking exclusively to the implementation of standards, "said McDonnell told reporters at a meeting held in Paris in the group Financial Action Task Force. " Countries that we wind up on the list because they have not implemented them. "The body can make recommendations to any of the 36 countries that have signed the Charter of the membership, as well as other countries, but they do not have the authority to implement sanctions.The Financial Action Task Force, whose recommendations up to more than 180 countries through regional networks, and estimates indicate that money laundering and financial crimes related to cost between 2 percent and 5 percent of global gross domestic product.In its report, the Financial Action Task Force also called on governments to consider in tax evasion as a crime of money laundering. agency quoted extends also to focus on target and non-proliferation of weapons of FATF block blacklisted destruction.The now includes 17 countries. Apart from the five new ones, are: Bolivia, Cuba, Ethiopia, Iran, Kenya, Myanmar, Nigeria, North Korea Sao Tome and Principe, Sri Lanka, Syria and Turkey.The gray list includes 22 countries: Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Ecuador, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Morocco, Namibia, Nicaragua, Philippines, Sudan, Tajikistan, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkmenistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zimbabwe