19. Money Laundering.

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What agency is responsible for fighting money laundering?
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National Crime Agency (NCA).
Which Act relates to criminal property?
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Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) 2002
What Act deals with conduct that was deemed to include anything which would have been an offence had it been committed in the UK, regardless of where it actually happened? (Spanish bullfighter issue)
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Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (SOCPA) 2005
What Act deals with tax evasion?
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The Criminal Finances Act 2017
What act covers the know your customer requirements?
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Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017
simply: MLR 2017
Which group of trade bodies publishes guidance on how firms should interpret AML regulations?
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Joint Money Laundering Steering Group (JMLSG)
based on:
Senior Management Arrangements, Systems and Controls (SYSC) Sourcebook
POCA establishes five offences:
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The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
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Concealing. | Arrangements*. | Acquisition, use and possession. | Failure to disclose. | Tipping off.
CAAFT
*it could include a person working within a financial organisation giving advice on a transaction.
Money laundering: Concealing, Arrangements and Acquisition are punishable by a jail term up to...
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...14 years.
Money laundering. The Failures to disclose offence covers relevant: Knowledge, | Suspicion or...
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The person does not make the required disclosure to a nominated officer (NO).
Such as the firm’s money laundering reporting officer (MLRO).
All three* Failure to disclose offences are are punishable by a jail term of up...
*Relevant knowledge, suspicion, and not making a disclosure to a nominated officer (NO).
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...5 years.
Money laundering. Tipping off is punishable by a jail term a up to...
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...2 years.
It is possible to commit this offence even if you do not know that a report has actually been made.
Money laundering. What is an objective test?
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asks whether a reasonable person would have known or suspected ML, regardless of whether the person actually knew or suspected it.
Money laundering. Prejudicing investigations, is punishable by a jail term a up to...
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5 years
READ: 2 offences:
Make a disclosure that is likely to prejudice an investigation. | Falsify, conceal or destroy documents relevant to an investigation, or permit such falsification.
3 stages of a money laundering
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1. Placement. 2. Layering. 3. Integration.
PLI
MRLO reports to...
The MLRO is an FCA-required function under the SM&CR, so the individual is required to be approved by the regulator.
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NCA
National Crime Agency
MRLO may supported by a separate...
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... compliance function.
How many parts consits the JMLSG Guidance?
Joint Money Laundering Steering Group
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3 parts - General guidance, Sectoral guidance, / Specialist guidance (relating to electronic payments).
The JMLSG Guidance is endorsed by...
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Treasury (therefore it does not form part of the FCA’s Handbook).
The JMLSG Guidance approach is __-based.
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risk-based
JMLSG Guidance sets out how authorised firms should manage their risk in terms of ML and...
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... Terrorist Financing (TF).
What does stand for PEP?
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Politically Exposed Person
What does stand for CDD?
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Customer Due Diligence
What does stand for EDD
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Enhanced Due Diligence
Applied in 6 specific circumstances (not provided).
For non-personal customers it will be necessary to conduct identity checks on on public registers, such as...
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... Companies House.
What does stand for SDD?
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Simplified Due Diligence
for low risk persons, such as listed companies, UK public authorities etc.
Under the definition of a PEP, a firm’s obligation to apply EDD measures to an individual ceases after they have left office for...
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1 year
Firms are no longer required to apply EDD measures to family members or close associates of a PEP when...
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... when the PEP is no longer entrusted with a prominent public function.
PEP definition:
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‘an individual who is or has, at any time in the preceding year, been entrusted with prominent public functions, other than as a middle-ranking or more junior official’.
KYC activities may involve using data from...
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credit reference agencies.
Nominated Officer vs MRLO:
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The NO is the person a firm designates to report to the NCA. | The MLRO is often the same person and is responsible for the broader function of ensuring the firm's compliance with AML regulations,
legal duty vs compliance duty
What does stand for SAR
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Suspicious Activity Report
MRLO resposibilities: | Policy Development and Implementation, | Monitoring and Reporting, | Training and Awareness, | Regulatory Compliance and Liaison, | Record Keeping and...
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... and Risk Management.
As an approved person, the MLRO is subject to the...
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to the Senior Managers Regime
SM&CR
CCD Records. As part of overall financial crime and terrorist financing prevention obligations, firms are required to keep copies of any documents 5 years after the business relationship ends, or...
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... or an occasional transaction.
5 years = standard period; the most common eriod.
Transactional Records that occur in a business relationship do not need to be kept beyond...
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...10 years
the only one exception (5 years in all other cases)
What is the record-keeping period for documents related to AML and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT)?
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5 years
With an exeption of Transactional records, which is 10 years.
What offences are established by the Bribery Act 2010?
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Offering, promising or giving a bribe. | Requesting, agreeing to receive or accepting a bribe. | Bribing a foreign public official. | Corporate offence of failing to prevent bribery.
The maximum sentence for bribery offence is (except the corporate offence which carries an unlimited fine)?
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10 years
The Bribery act 2010. What offence is covered by Section 7?
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Broad and innovatory offence of the failure of commercial organisations to prevent bribery on their behalf.
action. It also provides an offence of vicarious liability (carried out by an employee, an agent, a subsidiary, etc.).
Defence against bribery. The Ministry of Justice has provided guidance in the form of 6 principles:
PTR DCM
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Proportionality. | Top level commitment. | Risk assessment. | Due diligence. | Communication*. | Monitoring and review.
*communicating the firm’s policies and procedures to staff

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