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Tajikistan objects to Basel Institute’s anti-money-laundering criticisms

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Tajikistan's central bank has objected to its ranking as one of the worst money-laundering jurisdictions in the world by the Basel Institute on Governance. On July 27, the Basel Institute graded the Central Asian republic as the third-worst country out of 149 in its 2016 anti-money-laundering (AML) rankings.

The Basel Institute gave Tajikistan an AML risk score of 8.19 out of a possible 10, just behind Afghanistan's 8.51 and Iran's 8.61. The index is the Basel Institute's fifth annual rating of

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