This record is Cameroonian contamination in a Burkina Faso file, and is wrong on its own terms as well. No 'Groupe d'Analyse et de Contrôle Bancaire (GACB)' could be identified in any jurisdiction, and Cameroon is in CEMAC/GABAC — not UEMOA/BCEAO — so it is irrelevant to Burkina Faso in any event. Burkina Faso's AML/CFT statute is Loi n° 046-2024/ALT du 30 décembre 2024, which succeeded Loi n° 016-2016/AN du 3 mai 2016; AML/CFT supervision of banks and financial institutions is exercised by the Commission Bancaire de l'UMOA, and the FIU is CENTIF-BF.

BCEAO does not issue non-binding 'guidelines' in this area: its LBC/FT texts are binding Instructions and Décisions — notably Instruction n° 001-03-2025 (application by financial institutions), n° 002-03-2025 (cash-transport thresholds) and n° 003-03-2025 (customer identification and verification), all of 18 March 2025, together with Instructions n° 007 à 010-09-2017 du 25 septembre 2017 and Décisions n° 021 du 21/12/2023/CM/UMOA and n° 003 du 28/03/2024/CM. These bind institutions financières; obligations on DNFBPs/EPNFD flow from the national statute (Loi n° 046-2024/ALT), not from BCEAO. The substance asserted — CDD, ongoing monitoring, reporting — is correct.

Burkina Faso does maintain a national administrative asset-freezing list. The Minister of Economy and Finance issues arrêtés de gel administratif — e.g. the arrêté signed 19 November 2024 freezing the assets of 113 natural persons and 2 legal entities for terrorism or terrorist financing, for a renewable six-month period — prepared through the Commission consultative sur le gel administratif (CCGA) established by Décret n° 2021-1378/PRES/PM/... and operationalised by Arrêté n° 2022-0125 du 29 avril 2022. The reference to 'Cameroon Sanctions Regulations' is jurisdictional contamination. On the second limb, no dedicated UN/EU/US country sanctions regime targets Burkina Faso, but it was on the FATF list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring until 24 October 2025.

No enforcement action of this kind can be attributed to a 'GACB', which does not exist. In Burkina Faso, administrative and disciplinary sanctions (including pecuniary sanctions) against banks and financial institutions for AML/CFT failings are imposed by the Commission Bancaire de l'UMOA, not by any national banking-analysis body; under art. 182 of the transposed uniform law sanctions are imposed by the autorité de contrôle. No CFA 10 million fine on two banks in early 2024 could be substantiated.

Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD): Financial institutions are now required to conduct EDD for politically exposed persons (PEPs) and clients from high‑risk jurisdictions. EDD Requirements

Regarding Burkina Faso, reporting of suspicious transactions is activity-based rather than tied to a monetary threshold, meaning any suspicious transaction must be reported to the Financial Intelligence Unit (via CENTIF-Burkina) under the BCEAO regional framework, not that a threshold has been 'lowered.'

The GACB (Groupe d'Analyse et de Contrôle Bancaire) is not the primary authority overseeing compliance and imposing sanctions in Burkina Faso; instead, the regional UMOA Banking Commission (Commission Bancaire de l'UMOA) exercises this role for banks in Burkina Faso, including the power to audit, enforce prudential rules, and impose sanctions such as revoking approvals (e.g., SOBCA).

Burkina Faso's financial intelligence unit is the Cellule nationale de traitement des informations financières (CENTIF-BF), to which art. 60 of Loi n° 046-2024/ALT requires assujettis to file déclarations de soupçon; CENTIF also acts as the national point of contact and as secretariat of the national AML/CFT coordination committee. The record instead names Cameroon's FIU, a CEMAC/GABAC-area body with no role in Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso is not a FATF member; it is a member of GIABA, the FATF-style regional body for West Africa, and the FATF's 24 October 2025 statement directs that it 'should continue to work with GIABA'. No African Union body called the 'Committee for the Prevention of Money-Laundering (CUFIL)' could be identified; the relevant regional bodies are GIABA (ECOWAS area, which includes Burkina Faso) and GABAC (Central Africa).