Detecting the Fifty Shades of Grey: Local Crime, Suspicious Transaction Reporting and Anti-Money Laundering Regulation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Dalla Pellegrina ◽  
Donato Masciandaro ◽  
Giorgio Di Maio ◽  
Margherita Saraceno
Paradigma ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-86
Author(s):  
Siti Noviatun ◽  
Isfandayani

Abstract             The main fuction of the Bank as an funding and lending activities by offering various types of financial transaction services an attractive choice for people who do money laundering to hide money proceeds of crime. Because of that the government and Indonesian Banks make regulations related prevent money laundering that contains Customer Due Dilligence and Enhanced Due Dilligence. Bank Mandiri Syariah has implementation Customer Due Dilligence and Enhanced Due Dilligence as an effort to prevent money laundering. This analyze aims for knowing implementation Customer Due Dilligence and Enhanced Due Dilligence that has been applied by Bank Syariah Mandiri. In this study using a qualitative descriptive method. Data retrieval is done by observation, interviews and documentation to three sources of informants Bank Syariah Mandiri KCP Bekasi Timur and one sources of informants that specifically handles money laundering prevention program that is SKAP( Satuan Kerja APU PPT) Bank Mandiri Syariah. Data analysis will be done by doing three steps, they are; data reductions, data display, and verification.The observation result shows that implementation Customer Due Dilligence done at the time prospective customer open the account and the Bank doubt information customer by doing identification and verification. implementation Enhanced Due Dilligence is done to customers Politically Exposed Person/ High Risk open the account, but in practiceat Bank Syariah Mandiri KCP Bekasi Timur done when there is suspicious transaction or there is a case. Reporting process suspicious transaction through the system SIAP (System Aplikasi APU PPT) to Satuan Kerja APU PPT (SKAP) Bank Syariah Mandiri then SKAP reports to PPATK (Pusat Pelaporan Analisis Transaksi Keuangan). From implementation Customer Due Dilligence and Enhanced Due Dilligence Bank Mandiri Syariah has been prevent money laundering enter the financial system at Mandiri Sharia Bank.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1428-1441
Author(s):  
Fakhri Issaoui ◽  
Toumi Hassen ◽  
Touili Wassim

The strategic goal of this paper is to study the effects of the prevention policies against money laundering on growth in the gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE and Oman) from 1980 to 2014. Thus, the logistic regression (logit model) had given three fundamental results. The first had shown that the main policies in matter of fight against money laundering (anti money laundering law AMLL, suspicious transaction reporting STR, the criminalizing of terrorist financing CTF) have had positive effects on the increasing of probabilities to realize more growth. The second is that the said policies have had positive effects on the increasing of the degree of openness of the whole sample. The third is that the variable (proximity) had a positive and significant effect on anti-money laundering policies.


2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noriaki Yasaka

Purpose This report aims to focus on how suspicious transaction report is created with data mining methods and used from the point of view of knowledge management. Design/methodology/approach This paper considers data mining versus knowledge management in the anti-money laundering (AML) field. Findings In the AML field, the information and knowledge gained are not necessarily used for or shared with the related shareholders. Creating and co-evolving the network of “knowledge professionals” is the impending assignment in this industry. The first and most important task is knowledge management in the global AML field. Originality/value The report considers the creation with data mining methods and utilization from the point of view of knowledge management.


2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (12) ◽  
pp. 1761-1775
Author(s):  
Lucia dalla Pellegrina ◽  
Giorgio Di Maio ◽  
Donato Masciandaro ◽  
Margherita Saraceno

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 401-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandrine Giroud ◽  
Charles Boudry

Abstract:This article examines the duties of diligence of lawyers when handling art-related matters. Due diligence is paramount to any activity in the art market and a key element in ascertaining ownership, authenticity or provenance. In particular, it is a benchmark to help determine the existence of possible criminal activities, including money laundering, terrorism financing or document forgery, to which the art market is regularly exposed. The question arises as to the obligations incumbent to art lawyers who are privileged witnesses of the functioning of the art market. Such obligations include in particular the duty to enquire on the particularities of a transaction, the duty to terminate a mandate or the duty to report any suspicious transaction under threat of civil or criminal sanctions. A survey has shown that art law specialists would welcome more guidance in the form of tailored regulations or professional guidelines.


2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Viritha ◽  
V. Mariappan ◽  
Irfan Ul Haq

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the effectiveness of anti-money laundering (AML) reporting system in India in terms of Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) and its impact on countering money laundering through the conviction and confiscation. The main emphasis of financial action task force (FATF) guidelines on AML and countering of financing of terrorism (CFT) is the obligation of financial institutions and designated non-financial businesses and professions to instantaneously report the suspicious transactions to Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), an agency with a mandate to deal with AML. Design/methodology/approach – It is a descriptive study to explore the outcome of the AML process. The study has used the secondary information published in the annual reports of FIU-India and FATF. The study period is 2006-2007 to 2011-2012. Findings – Though there is a significant increase in the STRs filed, the impact of AML is not realized in terms of neither AML-related convictions nor confiscations, since the enactment of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). However, the AML/CFT regime in India has just started earnestly, and it still has to go a long way before stabilizing and achieve tangible results. Research limitations/implications – In the Indian context, only few of the effectiveness indicators of the FATF methodology 2013 could be selected due to the limited availability of data, as much of the information maintained by various stakeholders, including reporting entities, FIU-India and other investigative and enforcement agencies, is kept confidential. Thus, it is difficult to establish the effectiveness of enforcement function of AML. Evaluation of effectiveness of AML is judged on the basis of convictions and confiscations. Originality/value – There is a dearth of studies assessing the reporting system under PMLA and thus this paper attempts to throw some insights on the outcome of AML chain, especially the impact of reporting suspicious transactions.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 8643-8648

The International Monetary Fund defines money laundering as the process of assets being spawned by criminal activities to hide or make obscure any connections established between the funds and their illegal origins. Nowadays, money laundering has already been labelled as a global crime where global strategies and policies should be developed to curb money laundering. Thus, global courts should be formed to put into trial all money-laundering cases and make sound decisions in reference to punishments and penalties. The aim of this study is to gauge the effectiveness of anti-money laundering (AML) regulations in the Money Services Business (MSB) industry in Malaysia. There are three (3) predictors that have been expected to influence money-laundering activities, namely customers’ record-keeping, suspicious transaction reporting, and employee training. The respondents have been selected from MSB officers across Malaysia by using simple random sampling. The questionnaires were distributed to all 344 MSB through the Money Service Association. The compliance officers have been selected as the primary participants in the study since their roles and responsibilities within the MSB correlates with the three constructs identified in the study. The total of 150 (43.6%) questionnaires returned and have been used for analysis. The sample was then analysed using the descriptive and multiple regression analysis. The results revealed that all hypotheses are supported, which indicates that customer record keeping, suspicious transaction reporting, and employees training have a significant impact on combating money laundering. This study proposes that money-laundering activities could be controlled by focusing on customer record keeping, suspicious transaction reporting, and employee training. The findings provide evident on how The Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Financing Act 2001 (AMLATFA) has filled an imperative gap in fight towards combating money laundering in Malaysia. The similar studies could be conducted in other settings with different rules and regulations towards money laundering.


2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-63
Author(s):  
Noriaki Yasaka

Purpose The purpose of this study is to make clear the structure of suspicious transaction reporting system in Japan from perspective of knowledge management. Because of the institutionalization of law, suspicious transaction reports in Japan have increased, but most of these reports are from financial institutions. Moreover, it cannot be said that the effect is used completely. It is important to increase the accuracy of the data mining method and incorporate the concept of knowledge management. Furthermore, it is desirable to use suspicious transactions from a global “knowledge management” perspective. Design/methodology/approach Based on the case of the Japanese transaction reporting system, Global knowledge management of suspicious transaction reporting system would be considered. Findings It is effective for money laundering countermeasures to deepen knowledge management of data → information → knowledge → wisdom. This brings the refinement of typology at the transaction unit to the upper level. This repetition has become more advanced and generalized knowledge. Knowledge transferred from national stage to international stage is organized as further information → knowledge → wisdom by collecting data based on that knowledge. By repeating this systematization in the process of knowledge management, global prevention measures against money laundering would be disseminated. As the result of these efforts, effective counter measures against money laundering could be sharper than before. Originality/value This is the first study about the analysis of suspicious transaction reporting system in Japan linked to the global knowledge management.


2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-39
Author(s):  
V. V. Sergunina

The article considers the foreign experience of functioning and application of the mechanism for accounting and analysis of information about risks contained in reports on suspicious transactions for the purpose of its further application in Russian conditions. The relevance is due to the need to improve the system for recording and analyzing information about risks contained in reports on suspicious transactions transmitted to in Rosfinmonitoring. Due to the involvement of noncredit nonfinancial organizations in the process of countering the proceeds of crime, the financing of ter- rorism and the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the number of incoming reports to the Federal financial monitoring service is only increasing. All messages received are evaluated to determine whether they are suspicious or not. However, as the number of messages increases, the existing mechanism becomes less effective, and it needs to be updated and refined.The analysis of foreign experience was carried out on the basis of methods of theoretical and practical analysis, system analysis, comparison and classification methods. The methodology combines a review of the literature, analysis of research results of scientific specialists to comprehensively cover the goal.The study revealed that the analysis of suspicious transaction reports is used to assess the application of the Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism regime, the level of risk awareness and compliance with risk management strategies. Under Anti-Money Laundering / Combating the Financing of Terrorism, it is useful to consider best practices to develop a mechanism for recording and analyzing risk information contained in suspicious transaction reports submitted to the Federal financial monitoring service.


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