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Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 18,
2009 (SL Times) – Dahabshiil CEO, Mr. Abdirashid Duale, presented on
Thursday certificates of competence to 21 officers from the Money
Transfer Company on the successful completion of a two-day training
seminar on Anti Money Laundering compliance, followed by a competence
test held between June 15 and 16 at the company’s Operation’s Center in
Hargeysa.
The AML training workshop took trainees through essential areas related
to the monitoring of transactions, application of best practices and
prevention of money laundering.
“We can not possibly overstate the importance of anti-money laundering
and compliance with international regulations on safeguarding ethical
and legal transfer of funds specially at an era that technology is so
advanced and so cross-cutting,” Mr. Duale said.
Mr. Duale highlighted the company’s single-minded quest to serve its
customers and protect their remittance by becoming fully compliant
through our fully up to date compliance system that helped the company
leap forward into the international arena in money transfer.
“Dahabshiil found the right formula to serve customers efficiently,
effectively and speedily and yet be fully compliant on all international
rules and regulations on AML. This, perhaps, partly explains the
company’s uncontested lead position in the Somali and regional
remittance market of today,” Mr. Duale stated.
Present at the awarding ceremony were also Compliance officers and
agents from the United States, the UK, the UAE and Dahabshiil Corporate
Office in Dubai.
This training was part of a series of training programs designed to
reflect Dahabshiil’s ongoing commitment to staff development and
customer service by observing international standards of regulating
money transfer services.
In addition to becoming a household name in the Horn of Africa, the high
standards with which Dahabshiil conducts its operations have been
recognized in the UK and USA. In November 2008 Dahabshiil's CEO,
Abdirashiid Duale, received Top Manager Of The Year Award from IAMTN
whilst its London office has been certified compliant with ISO 9000. In
the USA Dahabshiil was given a Business and Entrepreneurship Award.
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