Júlio dos Santos
Rodrigues
A Central Bank of Brazil employee since 2008, he has been working in the AML/CFTP area since 2010, having worked in the Executive Secretariat and the Department of Conduct Supervision, including supervising major banks like BB and Caixa. At Coaf since 2019, he moved through the Audit and Regulation area before assuming his current role in the General Coordination of Institutional Articulation, where he also participated in coordinating the mutual evaluation process of Brazil by FATF and was part of the team that drafted Brazil's National Risk Assessment (NRA). Graduated in Social Communication from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, he is one of Brazil's delegates to FATF and GAFILAT and participated as part of the evaluation teams for Panama and Chile.
COAF | FATF description (Brazil MER):
The Council for Financial Activities (COAF) is the financial intelligence unit of Brazil, and the central authority of the system to prevent and combat money laundering, terrorist financing and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (AML/CFTP), especially in the receipt, analysis and dissemination of financial intelligence information. It is also a council that provides a multi-agency forum involving heads of several government agencies responsible for aspects of Brazil’s AML/CFTP system. The COAF Plenary meets monthly and comprises the President and representatives of: BACEN, CVM, SUSEP, the General Attorney Office of the National Treasury, ABIN, the Federal Police, the Secretariat of Federal Revenue (RFB), the MRE, the Ministry of Justice and the CGU. COAF is also responsible for regulating entities in the financial and DNFBP sectors that are not subject to regulation by other governmental institutions. COAF, created by Law No. 9613 in 1998 and restructured in 2020, is administratively linked to the Central Bank of Brazil (BCB), endowed with of technical and operational autonomy. Previously, it was part of Ministry of Finance, and briefly, the Ministry of Justice.