FATF) of the report of the Kingdom for 2010 in the fight against money-laundering and terror-financing. The assessment showed the full compliance of the Kingdom with international standards in these efforts. The paper also showed keenness of the Kingdom's Judiciary to apply the laws in force in the fight against corruption, and provided a brief overview of statistics on the cases of money-laundering and terror-financing which were filed before Saudi courts between 2004 and 2010 under which the number of money-laundering cases in 2009 referred to the Saudi courts was 49 cases and the total number of accused-convicted persons was 74 people, while the number of money-laundering cases in 2010 was 93 cases and the total number of defendants-convicted was 114 people. With regard to cases of terror-financing , the number of cases in 2009 referred to Saudi courts was 32 cases, the number of defendants-convicted was 71 people while the number of cases in 2010 was 11 cases and the number of accused-convicted was 19 people. The paper also reviewed the latest statistics relating to cases of crimes of terrorism referred to the Specialized Penal Court. In the same context, the paper addressed the Kingdom's accession to the Egmont Group in 2009, and the signing by the Financial Investigation Unit of the Ministry of Interior of Memoranda of Understanding with counterpart units in other countries, and the current efforts to modernize the system of combating money-laundering and the financing of terrorism to become more effective in combating these crimes. The National Anti-Corruption Commission began its works this year.
