Bolivia's Ministry of Finance has appointed Carlos Gonzalo Jáuregui Cisneros as Executive Director General of the Financial Investigations Unit, tasking him with restoring the unit’s technical character and strengthening efforts against money laundering while raising the country’s financial intelligence standards. At the swearing-in ceremony, Minister José Gabriel Espinoza Yáñez described the unit as strategic for tracing money flows linked to illicit activity and protecting the country’s reputation. He set two urgent priorities for the new director: rebuilding institutional capacity that he said had been damaged for political purposes, and bringing the unit into line with international norms and standards that had previously been neglected. Jáuregui stated that a key objective is to remove Bolivia from the Financial Action Task Force grey list and called on the private sector, including financial institutions and the securities and insurance sectors, to help build a more trusted and robust financial system.

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