Meanwhile, most of the world's dirty money actually ends up in rich countries that do well on FATF's MERs Something I call the "anti money laundering paradox" www.brookings.edu/articles/ang... This calls into question many things, including FATF's entire methodology

Angola and the money laundering paradox

New analysis reveals that countries ranked high for their anti-money-laundering policy are actually more, not less, likely to host companies related to Isabel dos Santos.

To be fair, the FATF has in the past put provisions into place to spare the smallers countries from being put on the blacklist (which can have implications for trade, remittance costs and banking connections) They have spared countries with less than than $5b in broad money (M3) quite consistently