By AML Intelligence Correspondents
APPLAUSE echoed around the European Parliament chamber in Brussels on Thursday to celebrate the appointment of the five new members of AMLA’s Executive Board.
Over two and half hours of hearings MEPs questioned the candidates about their suitability before voting overwhelmingly to appoint all five who will work with AMLA Chair Bruna Szego on the leadership team.
The five successful executives heading to AMLA headquarters in Frankfurt are: Simonas Krepsta (Lithuania), Juan Manuel Vega Serrano (Spain). Derville Rowland (Ireland), Marcus Pleyer (Germany) and Rikke-Louise Petersen (Denmark).
Proceedings kicked off at 11.30am before the joint financial services (ECON) and justice (LIBE) committee meeting, co-chaired respectively by French MEP Aurore Lalucq and Spain’s Javier Zarzalejos.
MEPs were chosen in advance to pose questions of the candidates, who were each first given an opportunity to make a statement. At 2.0pm the chamber was full to overflowing for the actual vote with scores of MEPs present as well as staff and aides.
AML Intelligence was on hand to capture the historic moment.
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