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The Office for Money Laundering Prevention (hereinafter: Office) is according to the Law on the Prevention of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism authorized to exchange data with foreign bodies and international organizations performing similar duties. It also plays the role of the central authority under the Act on the Ratification of the Convention of the Council of Europe No. 141 on money laundering, search, seizure and confiscation of the proceeds deriving from criminal activities.
The experiences acquired over the years show that it would be impossible to imagine the work of the Office without international cooperation and cooperation with other similar institutions in Europe and over the world. The Office is one of the founders of the EGMONT group, which unifies similar institutions (the so-called Financial Intelligence Units - FIU`s), which are engaged, throughout the world, in the prevention and detection of money laundering and in the last years also prevention and detection of the financing of terrorism. The EGMONT group which will be in the year 2007 transformed from non-formal to formal organization currently consists of 106 offices.
At the bilateral level, the Office has until 31 July, 2007 exchanged the following letters on cooperation and exchange of data with following 29 counterparts: American FinCEN (http://www.fincen.gov), Belgian CTIF/CFI (http://www.ctif-cfi.be), Italian UIC (http://www.uic.it), Croatian USPN, Czech FAU, Romanian ONPCSB, Slovak Ofis UFP, Bulgarian BFI (http://www.fia.minfin.bg), Cypriot MOKAS, Latvian KDFIU, Italian Guardia di Finanza, Lithuanian FCIS, Macedonian MLPD, Monegasque SICCFIN (http://www.siccfin.gouv.mc), Albanian DCFML, Polish Office General Inspector of Financial Information (http://www.mf.gov.pl), Australian AUSTRAC (http://www.austrac.gov.au), Ukrainian Office State Department for Financial Monitoring within Ministry of Finance, Serbian Office Administration for the Prevention of Money Laundering, Estonian Office Money Laundering Information Bureau, Israel Money Laundering Prohibition Authority, Russian Federal Service for Financial Monitoring (http://www.kfm.ru), Montenegrian Administration for the Prevention of Money Laundering, Georgian Financial Monitoring Service, Canadian FINTRAC (http://www.fintrac.gc.ca), Chilean Financial Analysis Unit (http://www.uaf.cl), Bosnian Financial Intelligence Department of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA), Office of San Marino Office Ufficio Antiriciclaggio, Banca Centrale della Repubblica di San Marino and Office of Netherlands Antilles Meldpunt Ongebruikelijke Transacties. The contents of the letter with the office from Malta has already been adjusted and is expected to be signed during the year 2007.
In the multilateral field, the work of the Office has been above all focused in the formation of the new international standards, supervision of their implementation in the countries members of the Council of Europe.
In addition to this, Office`s representatives are also actively participating in the work of the following international organizations and working groups: Council of Europe (in the working group MONEYVAL in the field of money laundering: http://www.coe.int ), European Union (membership in the Money Laundering Contact Committee) and in the Financial Task Force (FATF).
In Accordance with the Article 23 of the Council of Europe Convention No. 141 on money laundering, search, seizure and confiscation of proceeds derived from criminal activities, the Office is as a central authority competent for sending requests under this Convention or replies to requests, and it is responsible for satisfying the requests or for forwarding them to the competent bodies.
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