CBO Executive President meets board members of ACFE

Muscat: Tahir bin Abdullah Al Amri, the Executive President of the Central Bank of Oman (CBO) met with the board members of the Oman Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).

The meeting was held at the Central Bank headquarters last Tuesday. The meeting was also attended by Ali Al Asmi and other officials of the bank.

Jose Chacko, President of ACFE Oman Chapter thanked the CBO chief for his valuable time and presented the activities of the chapter and appraised the ways and means in which ACFE can join with CBO in bringing up the best practices in the administration of Anti Money Laundering and Anti Bribery policies initiated by the Central Bank in the Sultanate.

Jose Chacko, the president was accompanied by Davis Kallukaran, the Immediate Past President, Vice President Khalil Al Rawahi, Treasurer Kevin Frank, Fathiya Maskari, Director Training, Salim Al Mushaifiri Membership director and Murad Al Balushi, Director at Large.

Tahir Al Amri emphasised the need to develop more and more professional accountants and fraud examiners in most of the financial, insurance and banking sectors in Oman to eradicate the nuisance of money laundering, bribery and corruption.

He asked the chapter leaders to reach the objectives of ACFE to schools and colleges in the Sultanate to attract more and more aspirants to this vital profession.