The following academic essay, aims, to publicize the main concepts that were considered, at the time of creating the unit of research and financial analysis (UIAF) in the Republic of Colombia, to do so, is a description of historical facts that marked the formation of the Group of international financial action (GAFI), the main international agency, which produces guidelines or recommendations of global, for the fight against money laundering in the world; Defined as the 40 recommendations of the group in 1990, this is the concatenation of the issuance of these recommendations and their direct influence on the policy anti washed of assets and financing terrorism in Colombia.