Elena Tabone, deputy director of Malta’s Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU), first joined the unit in 2015 as a compliance officer with a background in insurance. Her role focuses on anti-money laundering/countering financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) risk-based supervision and AML/CFT administrative enforcement functions.
The unit was established by an Act of Parliament in 2001 as an independent government agency, it works with the public and private sectors to collect and disseminate intelligence to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, and monitors industry compliance with AML/CFT rules.
