- •ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
- •INTRODUCTION
- •1. The evolution of money laundering and AML/CFT measures
- •1.1. A brief history of money laundering
- •1.2. The first stage of ML evolution: Al Capone tax evasion charges
- •1.3. The subsequent stages of ML evolution: better hiding techniques
- •1.4. The appearance of “money laundering” expression in the legal context
- •1.5. Further development of the international AML/CFT standards
- •2. An overview of money laundering and AML regime goals
- •2.1. Basic concept of money laundering
- •2.2. Predicate offences: the scope and methods of AML/CFT description
- •2.3. Definition of money laundering in the narrow sense
- •2.4. Definition of money laundering in the broad sense
- •2.5. Anti-money laundering measures of combating organized crime
- •2.6. The process of money laundering and modeling of its phases
- •3. Applying a risk-based approach to a model AML/CFT regime
- •3.1. Key institutions of a national AML/CFT regime
- •3.2. Methodology bases of a risk-based approach and national AML/CFT coordination
- •3.3. Financial institutions: definition for AML/CFT purposes through activities and operations related to managing clients’ assets
- •3.4. Definition of financial institutions for AML/CFT purposes through activities and operations other then managing clients’ assets
- •3.5. AML/CFT definition of designated non-financial businesses and professions
- •3.6. AML/CFT risk-assessment obligations and decisions for countries
- •4. Legal requirements for a national AML/CFT regime
- •4.1. An extension of liability for money laundering to the predicate offence perpetrator: the adverse implications for the economy
- •4.2. Dual criminality for money laundering offences committed internationally
- •4.3. “State of mind” connected with a money laundering offence
- •4.4. Confiscation and provisional measures related to AML/CFT
- •4.5. Non-conviction based confiscation and corporate liability for money laundering
- •5. Explanations of terrorism and the financing of terrorism
- •5.1. Social and economic origins of terrorism
- •5.2. Basic concept of terrorist financing
- •5.3. Legal definition of terrorism and terrorist financing
- •5.4. Characteristics of the terrorist financing offence and legal capacity to prosecute persons that finance terrorism
- •5.5. Targeted financial sanctions related to terrorism, terrorist financing and proliferation
- •6. Institutional bases of the international AML/CFT framework
- •6.1. The United Nations bodies of the international AML/CFT framework
- •6.2. The United Nations organizations of the international AML/CFT framework
- •6.3. Main functions of the Financial Action Taskforce
- •6.4. The Financial Action Task Force associate members and observers
- •6.5. The Egmont Group of financial intelligence units and international AML/CFT standard setters in banking, securities and insurance sectors
- •6.6. The Wolfsberg Group of banks and its AML/CFT documents
- •7. Customer due diligence measures undertaken by financial institutions
- •7.1. General requirements for AML/CFT programs of financial institutions and groups of financial institutions
- •7.2. Methodology approach to customer due diligence
- •7.3. Additional features of customer due diligence
- •7.4. Customer due diligence measures for legal persons and their arrangements
- •7.5. Actions of financial institutions in case of inability to comply with customer due diligence requirements
- •7.6. AML/CFT-related record-keeping requirements for financial institutions
- •8. Risk-based approach pursued by financial institutions in customer due diligence
- •8.1. Reliance on customer due diligence information received from third parties
- •8.2. Potentially higher-risk situations for enhanced customer due diligence measures
- •8.3. Lower-risk situations for simplified customer due diligence measures
- •8.4. Enhanced customer due diligence measures
- •8.5. Simplified customer due diligence measures
- •9. Additional AML/CFT measures for specific activities of financial institutions
- •9.1. AML/CFT requirements for cross-border correspondent banking relationships
- •9.2. Definition of wire transfers and activities of involved parties
- •9.3. The scope of applying AML/CFT measures to wire transfers
- •9.4. AML/CFT measures of information gathering related to wire transfers
- •9.6. AML/CFT obligations for persons that provide money or value transfer services
- •10. Additional AML/CFT measures for specific customers, entities and professions
- •10.1. Definition of politically exposed persons and the scope of applying AML/CFT measures
- •10.2. Additional AML/CFT measures for politically exposed persons
- •10.3. AML/CFT requirements for financial institutions with foreign operations
- •10.4. Customer due diligence and record-keeping requirements for designated non-financial businesses and professions
- •10.5. Other AML/CFT requirements for designated non-financial businesses and professions
- •11. Competent authorities of a national AML/CFT system
- •11.1. General requirements for government agencies with an AML/CFT function
- •11.2. Approaches to AML/CFT-related regulation and supervision
- •11.3. Financial intelligence unit and its core functions
- •11.4. AML/CFT responsibilities of law enforcement and investigative authorities
- •11.5. Detecting and countering activities of cash couriers for the AML/CFT purposes
- •12. Additional requirements for a national AML/CFT regime and issues of international cooperation
- •12.1. Transparency and beneficial ownership of legal persons and their arrangements
- •12.2. Prevention of using non-profit organizations for the purpose of terrorist financing
- •12.3. General principles of AML/CFT mutual legal assistance
- •12.4. Mutual legal assistance: freezing and confiscation of assets related to money laundering and terrorist financing
- •12.5. Extradition in relation to money laundering and terrorist financing
- •12.6. International exchange of information between government agencies with an AML/CFT function
МИНИСТЕРСТВО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ И НАУКИ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ
НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЙ ИССЛЕДОВАТЕЛЬСКИЙ ЯДЕРНЫЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ «МИФИ»
А.Л. Сапунцов
THE INTERNATIONAL AML/CFT FRAMEWORK: CHALLENGES FOR FINANCIAL TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Рекомендовано к изданию УМО «Ядерные физика и технологии»
Москва 2013
УДК [336.221.24 + 327] (075.8) ББК 65.2/4. – 65.9я7 С 19
Сапунцов А.Л. The International AML/CFT Framework: Challenges for Financial Transnational Corporations from Developing Countries. М.: НИЯУ МИФИ, 2013. – 100 с.
В книге обобщаются подходы к формированию международных стандартов противодействия отмыванию денег и финансированию терроризма (ПОД/ФТ) с учетом внедрения таких стандартов в экономику развивающихся стран для интенсификации внешнеэкономической деятельности их финансовых транснациональных корпораций. Раскрыты вопросы эволюции мер борьбы с организованной преступностью, современные источники международного права в сфере ПОД/ФТ и институциональные основы деятельности международной системы ПОД/ФТ. Изложены требования к применению стандартов ПОД/ФТ как в деятельности частного сектора, так и в соответствующих компетентных государственных органах.
Предназначена для студентов высших учебных заведений, изучающих международную систему по ПОД/ФТ на английском языке как иностранном. Примененные методы визуализации материала позволяют использовать издание в качестве справочного и учебного руководства для педагогических и научных кадров, а также для сотрудников подразделения финансовой разведки, правоохранительных и надзорных органов, работников соответствующих частных организаций.
Подготовлена в рамках Программы создания и развития НИЯУ МИФИ.
The book generalizes approaches to setting up the international standards on anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT). It covers the evolution of AML measures against organized crime, contemporary sources of international AML/CFT legislature, and the institutional bases of the relevant global framework. AML/CFT requirements for private sector entities, as well as methods of competent authorities operations, are covered.
Designed for university students taking the course on the international AML/CFT framework in English as a foreign language. Visualization materials may be used as reference or training guides by professors and scientists, as well as by staff of financial intelligence units, law enforcement, supervisory agencies, or relevant private entities.
Рецензент д-р экон. наук, проф. Л.Л. Фитуни
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ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS ............................................................. |
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INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................. |
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1. The evolution of money laundering and AML/CFT measures ....................... |
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1.1. A brief history of money laundering ........................................................ |
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1.4. The appearance of “money laundering” expression in the legal context .15 |
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1.5. Further development of the international AML/CFT standards .............. |
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2. An overview of money laundering and AML regime goals............................ |
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2.1. Basic concept of money laundering ......................................................... |
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2.2. Predicate offences: the scope and methods of AML/CFT description .... |
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2.3. Definition of money laundering in the narrow sense ............................... |
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2.4. Definition of money laundering in the broad sense ................................. |
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2.5. Anti-money laundering measures of combating organized crime ........... |
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2.6. The process of money laundering and modeling of its phases................. |
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3. Applying a risk-based approach to a model AML/CFT regime ..................... |
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3.1. Key institutions of a national AML/CFT regime ..................................... |
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3.2. Methodology bases of a risk-based approach and national AML/CFT |
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activities and operations other then managing clients’ assets ......................... |
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3.5. AML/CFT |
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perpetrator: the adverse implications for the economy ................................... |
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4.3. “State of mind” connected with a money laundering offence.................. |
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5. Explanations of terrorism and the financing of terrorism ............................... |
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5.1. Social and economic origins of terrorism................................................. |
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5.2. Basic concept of terrorist financing.......................................................... |
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international cooperation ..................................................................................... |
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financing .......................................................................................................... |
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ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS |
AML |
anti-money laundering |
AML/CFT |
anti-money laundering and countering (or combating) the |
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financing of terrorism |
APG |
Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering |
ARS |
alternative remittance system |
BCBS |
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision |
BNI |
bearer negotiable instrument |
BSA |
The U.S. Bank Secrecy Act (1970) |
CAS |
country assistance strategy |
CDD |
customer due diligence |
CFATF |
Caribbean Financial Action Task Force |
CFT |
countering (or combating) the financing of terrorism |
COE |
Council of Europe |
CTC |
Counter-Terrorism Committee |
CTED |
Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate |
CTR |
currency transaction report |
EAG |
Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and the |
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Financing of Terrorism |
ECDD |
enhanced customer due diligence |
EEA |
European Economic Area |
ESAAMLG |
Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering |
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Group |
ESW |
Egmont Secure Web |
FATF |
Financial Action Task Force |
FATF 40 Recom- |
The FATF 40 Recommendations on anti-money |
mendations |
laundering (were in effect during 1990–2012) |
FATF 40+9 RecomThe FATF 40 Recommendations and The FATF IX |
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mendations |
Recommendations treated as a single document |
FATF IX Special |
The FATF IX Special Recommendations on combating |
Recommendations |
the financing of terrorism (were in effect during 2001– |
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2012) |
FATF Recom- |
The FATF Recommendations (International Standards on |
mendations |
Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of |
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Terrorism and Proliferation of February 2012) |
FIU |
financial intelligence unit |
FSRB |
FATF Style Regional Bodies |
FT |
financing of terrorism |
G8 |
Group of Eight |
GAFISUD |
Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering in |
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South America |
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General Glossary |
General Glossary of the FATF Recommendations |
GPML |
Global Program against Money Laundering |
IAIS |
International Association of Insurance Supervisors |
IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
IN |
Interpretive Note to a Recommendation from the FATF |
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Recommendations |
IOSCO |
International Organization of Securities Commissions |
KYC |
know-your-customer |
Merida Convention |
United Nations Convention Against Corruption (2003) |
ML |
money laundering |
MONEYVAL |
Council of Europe the Select Committee of Experts on the |
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Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures |
MOU |
Memorandum of Understanding |
MVTS |
money or value transfer services |
NCCT |
Non-Cooperative Countries and Territories |
NPO |
non-profit organization |
OAS |
Organization of American States |
OFC |
offshore financial center |
Palermo Convention |
United Nations Convention Against Transnational |
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Organized Crime (2000) |
R. |
A Recommendation from the FATF Recommendations |
ROSC |
Report on Observance of Standards and Codes |
SAR |
suspicious activity report |
SRB |
self-regulatory body |
SRO |
self-regulatory organization |
STR |
suspicious transaction report |
Strasbourg |
Council of Europe Convention on Laundering, Search, |
Convention |
Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds of Crime (1990) |
TA |
technical assistance |
TCSP |
Trust and Company Service Providers |
Terrorist Financing |
The International Convention for the Suppression of the |
Convention |
Financing of terrorism (New York, 1999) |
TF |
terrorist financing |
UN |
United Nations |
UNSC |
United Nations Security Council |
Vienna Convention |
United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in |
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Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (1988) |
Warsaw Convention |
Council of Europe Convention on Laundering, Search, |
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Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime and |
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on the Financing of Terrorism (2005) |
WMD |
weapons of mass destruction |
Wolfsberg Group |
Wolfsberg Group of Banks |
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INTRODUCTION
The comprehensive national regime on anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/ CFT) has to be based on universally accepted approaches to legal definition of relative offences, establishment of preventive and institutional measures, and methods of interaction with foreign counterparts. It is vital to know that these approaches, partially summarized by the
Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in its documents, are subject to swift changes, because the international community has to respond to emerging threats of transnational organized crime and terrorist networks, that try to exploit the internationalization of finance and trade. Over the past decade developing countries have achieved a lot in setting up national AML/CFT regimes, yet ongoing reforms and instability in the world economy still pose threats to local financial intermediaries. An important goal of developing countries is to eliminate the abuse of the financial system which will allow their transnational corporations (TNCs) to achieve better results in foreign market expansion.
Training of staff for AML/CFT-related organizations is an important prerequisite for achieving effectiveness in combating organized financial crime and terrorism. Sources of information and documents in English are frequently used in this field, therefore it is of crucial importance for a university student to receive an advanced linguistic training. The curriculum should also include taking courses on AML/CFT in English.
Despite the availability of writings on AML/CFT in the English language, it is often quite difficult for a student to understand complicated logical links in the text. This does not only arise from limited knowledge of the foreign language itself, but is also related to concise presentation of text and the lack of structuring intended for educational purposes. One such example is the FATF Recommendations, which were greatly improved after the changes of February 2012, yet require additional visual study materials for better understating. International or-
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ganizations have published some AML/CFT textbooks in English, but they have not been primarily designed to be used by foreign-speaking students.
The Institute of Financial and Economic Security at the National Research
Nuclear University MEPhI is the only Russian university that offers a major in
AML/CFT. Advanced linguistic studies and teaching of fundamental courses in English is an important part of the curriculum. The university has direct links with the Rosfinmonitoring, the Russian financial intelligence unit (FIU), where students can get on-the-job training and seek employment.
This textbook is comprised of educational materials used in teaching the course on the international AML/CFT framework in English. The author has attempted to visualize logical links between terms and categories and to compile a list of key words and key questions to be used for intermediate and final tests. Readers are strongly advised to use this book along with information from trusted sources on the Internet. In particular, the sources of information include sites of studied international organizations, where one can find extensive information on history and activities of these bodies. Full texts of official documents and other relevant recommendations, principles, and guidelines should also be studied.
The author expresses appreciation to Sherry Brock and Wane Brock for their support and advice. Their encouragement and motivation has helped to facilitate all aspects of this book.
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