Dr. Marie-Lena Marstaller, LL.M., AMLC, 2022 Introduction As part of the fight against undermining and organised crime, many countries use non conviction based confiscation (NCBC) instruments to extracts assets with a criminal origin from circulation...
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Non conviction based confiscation in the Netherlands and Europe
Vegetable seed sector document
Sector knowledge is enormously important to make sense of information about possible money laundering schemes. The AMLC has been working with Customs since this year to gain sector knowledge.In Q1, they delved into the world...
Global financial institutions summit New York (2nd edition)
On December 7 and 8 the second edition of GFIS (the global financial institutions summit) took place in New York. The annual GFIS is part of the J5 organization (the Joint chiefs of global tax...
FATF
De Financial Action Task Force (FATF) published an assessment report on 24 August 2022 about the Dutch policy regarding the tackling of money laundering, terrorism financing and the financing and spreading of weapons of mass...
Leaders in finance in Brussels
In September, the Leaders in Finance AML Europe Event 2022 took place in Brussels. Suzanne Visser, head of AMLC, took part in the panel discussion about a relatively new topic: how do ESG (criteria in...
Cooperation of the AMLC with the Utrecht University
The AMLC focus on money laundering includes the use of trade flows, or Trade-Based Money Laundering. In this context, a good risk-based project is currently the subject of much work. Over the last few years,...
FATF evaluation Netherlands
The Financial Action Task Force or FATF makes periodical evaluations of different countries. Such an evaluation starts on the basis of what is referred to as a Mutual Evaluation, in which a team of experts...
Indicators for money laundering via cryptocurrency
Virtual currency is regularly linked to money laundering. Gatekeepers need to remain alert of the risks. But which amount offers an indication of money laundering with virtual currency? The Europol Financial Intelligence Public Private Partnership...
New FATF rapport
The FATF reviewed the opportunities and challenges of new technologies for AML/CFT to raise awareness of relevant progress in innovation and specific digital solutions. The FATF also looked at the persisting challenges and obstacles to...
Travel Rule
This summer, the Financial Action Task Force on money laundering (FATF) pointed out that a majority of countries have not yet implemented the FATF Crypto Guidance (read more here). The FATF Crypto Guidance includes the...