{"id":7,"date":"2018-10-09T09:16:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T09:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/fiu2\/about\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T15:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T11:12:11","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fiumauritius.org\/fiu\/?page_id=7","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7\" class=\"elementor elementor-7\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c1d3b5a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c1d3b5a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-464e6a6\" data-id=\"464e6a6\" 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elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fa0a5e2\" data-id=\"fa0a5e2\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-92a7725 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"92a7725\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Established under Section 9 of the Financial Intelligence and Anti Money Laundering Act in August 2002 as subsequently amended, the <strong>Financial Intelligence Unit<\/strong> (the FIU) is the National Central Agency in Mauritius responsible for the request, receipt, analysis and dissemination of information regarding suspected proceeds of crime, money laundering offences and the financing of terrorism and proliferation to relevant national and international authorities.<\/p><p>The FIU is also the AML\/CFT regulator for 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