Tackling Money Laundering in Croatia: Conference Report

In June 2023, Croatia was added to the Financial Action Task Force grey list, which identifies jurisdictions with strategic deficiencies in their anti-money-laundering and counterterrorism-financing regimes. 

Recognising the key role that civil society organisations can play in holding the government accountable for delivering the changes needed, the Centre for Finance and Security at RUSI, together with CROSOL (Croatian Platform for International Citizen Solidarity), held a roundtable in June 2024. This roundtable brought together local civil society organisation representatives and investigative journalists to discuss the latest mutual evaluation of Croatia and the repercussions of its grey listing. This conference report reflects the key points from both the roundtable discussion and one-on-one meetings held in Croatia. This engagement is part of RUSI’s Restricting Kleptocracy project5 and is supported by the National Endowment for Democracy.