About Us
About FIU-Aruba
FIU-Aruba is the national agency entrusted with the task and responsibility to detect, deter and disrupt criminal abuse of our financial system. One of our main tasks is to collect, analyze and disseminate financial intelligence to the competent authorities.
We are a professional and strategic AML/CFT partner in safeguarding the integrity of our financial system. We are committed to our continuous development and professional relationship with the reporting entities and partners in the public and private sectors. We keep ourselves abreast of national and international developments in our field of work and actively participate on international platforms, such as the Financial Action Task Force (through the Kingdom of the Netherlands), the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force, and the Egmont Group.
MISSION
To effectively safeguard the integrity of the (Aruban) financial system by preventing and combating money laundering, terrorist financing, the financing of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and associate predicate offenses.
VISION
We are a trusted national authority on AML/CFT-matters.
OUR VALUES
The FIU has a trustworthy, respectful, supportive, and responsible team.
Objective
It is our legal responsibility to make an essential contribution to safeguard the integrity of the financial sector, to maintain public confidence in the companies and institutions that provide financial services and for purposes of both, national and international security.
Task
An important task of the FIU is to collect, register, process and analyze data obtained in order to determine whether this data may be relevant for the prevention, detection and combating of crimes; in particular money laundering, terrorist financing, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and associated predicate offenses.
Reporting obligation
Pursuant to the State Ordinance for the Prevention and Combating of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (AML/CFT State Ordinance) (AB 2011 no. 28), financial institutions as well as designated non-financial businesses or professions are required to report unusual transactions, possibly related to money laundering and/or terrorist financing.
