Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera (Mexico)

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Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera (Financial Intelligence Unit) or UIF is an administrative unit of Mexico's Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit responsible for receiving, analyzing and disseminating information related to the prevention, detection and combat to the violations of operations with illegal resources such as money laundering and terrorist-financing activities. Its main source of information are the reports and notices provided by the financial institutions in the country. [1]

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The UIF was created on 7 May 2004, [2] during the presidency of Vicente Fox Quesada. [3]

Agency Executives

UIF Agency Executives [4] [5] [6] [7]
Agency ExecutivePeriod
Concepción Patiño Cestafe2004–2006
Agustín Acosta Azcón2006
Luis Urrutia Corral2006–2010
José Alberto Balbuena Balbuena2011–2013
Alberto Bazbaz Sacal2013–2018
Orlando Suárez López2018
Santiago Nieto Castillo2018–

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References

  1. Página web oficial de la Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público (Consultada miércoles 23 de octubre de 2013)
  2. "SHCP - Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera (UIF)". 24 September 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  3. Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público (7 May 2004). "Decreto que reforma el Reglamento Interior de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público y el Reglamento de la Ley del Servicio de Tesorería de la Federación". Diario Oficial de la Federación. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  4. Staff (4 December 2006). "Nombra Carstens a equipo de Hacienda". Reforma, 1 833 234 4054 UIF.
  5. Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público (2012). Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público. Memoria 2006 - 2012 (PDF). Retrieved 6 February 2018.
  6. Raziel, Zedryk (26 August 2019). "Ayuda a Duarte la UIF de Peña". Reforma.
  7. Cámara de Diputados (13 December 2018). "Ratifica Cámara de Diputados nombramiento de 12 empleados superiores de la Secretaría de Hacienda y del Servicio de Administración Tributaria" . Retrieved 27 September 2019.