AMMAN — On
Wednesday, the Lower House Legal Committee endorsed the anti-money laundering
and terrorist financing bill after the Senate returned it to the Legal
Committee.
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Member of the
Legal Committee, MP Saleh Al-Wukhian, said to
Jordan News that the
committee had finished discussing all the details of the bill and voted on its
approval to be presented to the House of Representatives for discussion and
vote.
For his part, MP Ghazi Al-Thneibat affirmed that senators had objected to
a number of important points and that the committee concurred with the Senate.
During
the meeting, Deputy Mohammad Al-Hlalat, head of the Legal Committee, said that
the draft law had been discussed in-depth, particularly the points the Senate
had raised.
Much of the
debate around the bill had been focused on material returned from the Senate,
especially those related to parties reporting suspected money laundering.
The MP stressed
that the committee endorsed the draft law with the Senate’s amendments.