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An intergovernmental group on Friday moved the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique and Tanzania onto a gray list of nations with strategic gaps in their anti-financial crime defenses, and removed Pakistan in light of the country’s ongoing campaign to eliminate its own.

Nicaragua also exited the Financial Action Task Force’s gray list after a team of evaluators determined that the Central American country has more thoroughly adopted the risk-based approach to anti-money laundering supervision. Myanmar meanwhile dropped from the gray list to the black list after failing to address a number of strategic deficiencies that FATF first identified in a report four years ago.

FATF barred Russia from participating in the group’s “current and future projects” in response to the country’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine.