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Recto: PH to exit 'gray' list this year

Country to stay under heightened monitoring; global watchdog urges reforms

THE Philippines' having been kept on a global dirty money watchlist has underlined ongoing government efforts to implement reforms and achieve an exit this year.

Finance Secretary Ralph Recto expects the country to be removed from heightened Financial Action Task Force monitoring, telling The Manila Times on Sunday that 'President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has instructed relevant government agencies to do what's necessary to comply with [the] FATF.'