ARCHIVED 15 August 2026 to research/SRC-006_FATF_increased_monitoring_2026-06-19.html, HTTP 200 with a browser user-agent. Previously READ on the register's face with no copy on disk, which the Chapter 3 retrieval gate flagged. TO_ARCHIVE_IF_PERMITTED
Claims
FATF wording; CH6 Syria's grey-list status and the reason for it; the date of the Syria entry
Status
READ
Version history
The register keeps changing after the book is fixed in print. Each entry below was added to this row in the order shown.
RETIERED 11 August 2026 under D-028 against EVIDENCE_PROTOCOL's six-level source hierarchy. The previous value was an ad hoc quality score on an undocumented scale. Tier now records SOURCE TYPE only; how far this project has checked the document is the Status column. Previous value: tier 2. Grey list does not require blanket de-risking
SYRIA ENTRY OPENED AND READ 17 August 2026 in the archived copy, and it does not say what the chapter would have assumed. THE SYRIA SECTION IS HEADED '(Statement from February 2023)' AND IS REPUBLISHED UNCHANGED IN THE JUNE 2026 LIST. It records that Syria made its high-level political commitment in February 2010; that in June 2014 the FATF determined Syria had SUBSTANTIALLY ADDRESSED ITS ACTION PLAN at a technical level, including by criminalising terrorist financing and establishing procedures for freezing terrorist assets; and that 'While the FATF determined that Syria has completed its agreed action plan, due to the security situation, the FATF has been unable to conduct an on-site visit to confirm whether the process of implementing the required reforms and actions has begun and is being sustained.' SO THERE ARE NO OUTSTANDING ACTION PLAN ITEMS. Syria is on the grey list because the FATF cannot verify implementation on the ground, not because deficiencies remain unremedied, and every other jurisdiction in the same list carries a numbered list of things still to do while Syria does not [STRUCK 18 AUGUST 2026, MARKED HERE RATHER THAN ONLY BELOW, SO THAT A PARTIAL QUOTATION OF THIS ROW CANNOT REINTRODUCE IT. The count later in this row refutes it: Yemen's entry carries the same February 2023 statement and no numbered list of outstanding items either. Adopting the form SRC-221 already uses, on the v7 diff review's m8]. THE ENTRY WAS WRITTEN ABOUT A STATE THAT NO LONGER EXISTS AND HAS NOT BEEN REVISITED IN THREE YEARS. THIS QUALIFIES THE IMF AT SRC-060: the IMF statement of 4 August 2026 says the AML/CFT framework 'needs to be enhanced, including to achieve Syria's removal from FATF's grey list', which is consistent with the FATF entry only if the enhancement needed is the on-site verification and what it would find. THE CHAPTER MUST STATE BOTH, ATTRIBUTED, AND MAY NOT COLLAPSE THEM. SCOPE OF THIS READING: the Syria section and the list of monitored jurisdictions were read; the entries for the other 21 jurisdictions were not, beyond South Sudan and Venezuela which sit either side of Syria on the page.
AMENDED 17 AUGUST 2026 AFTER THE BATTERY FOUND A PRINTED FACTUAL ERROR RESTING ON THIS PAGE. The chapter said 'Every other jurisdiction on that page carries a numbered list of things still to do. Syria carries none.' THE PAGE REFUTES IT. EXACTLY TWO ENTRIES CARRY A '(Statement from February 2023)' HEADER AND THEY ARE SYRIA AND YEMEN, confirmed by counting every occurrence in the 85,530-character extraction. Yemen's entry is Syria's template: the same February 2010 commitment, the same June 2014 determination that it 'had substantially addressed its action plan at a technical level', the same finding that it 'has completed its agreed action plan', the same inability to conduct an on-site visit 'due to the security situation', and the same undertaking to visit 'at the earliest possible date'. AND THE NUMBERED LIST IS MISDESCRIBED. Yemen's items (1) to (6) are what the FATF determined Yemen HAD ADDRESSED: criminalising money laundering and terrorist financing, freezing procedures, customer due diligence and suspicious transaction reporting, guidance, supervisory capacity, and a functioning financial intelligence unit. THEY ARE THINGS DONE, NOT THINGS OUTSTANDING. Syria's equivalent is the same statement in running prose, naming two: criminalising terrorist financing and establishing procedures for freezing terrorist assets. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO ENTRIES IS TYPOGRAPHIC AND THE CHAPTER READ IT AS SUBSTANTIVE. WHAT SURVIVES AND IS STRONGER: Syria's entry records a completed action plan, so nothing is outstanding, and the grey listing does the compliance work anyway. That point does not need Yemen to be different.