FIU-Nederland neemt deel aan de “Russia Related Illicit Finance and Sanctions FIU Working Group”
FIU-Nederland neemt deel aan de “Russia Related Illicit Finance and Sanctions FIU Working Group”. De participerende FIU’s in dit initiatief zijn Australië, Canada, Frankrijk, Duitsland, Italië, Japan, Nederland, Nieuw-Zeeland, het Verenigd Koninkrijk en de Verenigde Staten van Amerika.
Op initiatief van FINCEN, de FIU van de Verenigde Staten, heeft een aantal FIU’s besloten om de handen ineen te slaan en hun internationale samenwerking te verstevigen op alle aspecten die te maken hebben met de huidige sancties tegen Russische en Belarussische entiteiten en individuen. Ook mogelijke witwasactiviteiten zullen nadrukkelijk aandacht krijgen.
Deze werkgroep werkt op basis van de Taskforce die de overheden van deze landen en de EU hebben gevormd om in gezamenlijkheid de naleving van de sanctiemaatregelen te bevorderen en eraan bij te dragen dat deze een zo groot mogelijke impact hebben.
Het Statement of Intent hieronder is de basis van de samenwerking van de FIU’s. Op korte termijn zal gestart worden met de coördinatie van de concrete activiteiten die deze FIU’s op dit moment al uitvoeren en zal er kennis en ervaring worden uitgewisseld.
De sanctiemaatregelen zijn een antwoord van de internationale gemeenschap op een door Rusland gestarte ongerechtvaardigde en onwettige oorlog die de internationale orde aantast.
Onder meer door te participeren in deze FIU Werkgroep wil FIU-Nederland maximaal bijdragen aan het realiseren van de doelstellingen van de sancties.
RUSSIA-RELATED ILLICIT FINANCE AND SANCTIONS FIU WORKING GROUP
Statement of Intent
We, the Financial Intelligence Units of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the
Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, referred to herein as
Working Group Members issue this statement of intent:
Recalling statements made by governments around the world, including Australia, Canada,
France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States of America,
and the High Representative of the European Union, condemning Russia’s unprovoked and
unjustifiable war of choice against Ukraine, enabled by the Belarussian government (“the threat”);
Recognizing that the respective governments of the Working Group Members and the European
Union have imposed several rounds of far-reaching economic and financial sanctions, and
committed to imposing further sanctions in response to the threat;
Further recognizing that the governments of several Working Group Members and the European
Commission, consistent with their respective legal frameworks, have agreed to establish an
international task force to coordinate efforts related to sanctions and asset recovery;
Underscoring the need for FIUs to cooperate with law enforcement, prosecutors, other
competent authorities, and the private sector, within the legal framework of the respective FIUs,
to achieve the goals of the international task force and more generally to combat the associated
illicit activities including money laundering, sanctions evasion, cyber threats, and corruption;
Stressing the importance of the role of Financial Intelligence Units in the collection, sharing,
analysis, dissemination, and use of financial intelligence to address money laundering and the
financing of terrorist activities, and
Recalling that, under the current international, EU and national legal frameworks, FIUs do not
have a uniform and comprehensive legal basis and mandate to receive, analyse and share
information on financial sanctions and related measures;
Affirm the need to identify concrete actions that participating Working Group Members, within
their respective legal framework, can take individually or collectively to
1. Enhance financial intelligence on sanction-related matters and associated financial
flows and economic activities;
2. Expedite and increase sharing of financial intelligence in sanction-related matters and
associated financial flows and economic activities;
3. Engage in discussions concerning FIU best practices, lessons learned, and
opportunities for actions and partnerships to combat the threat; and
4. Strengthen and facilitate working relationships between FIUs and competent public
authorities and the private sector addressing the threat, including by engaging with task
forces established by governments of the Working Group Members.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Do you want to know whether FIU-the Netherlands has personal data about you and whether you can access it?
The answers to these questions can be found in articles of the General Data Protection Regulation, in the associated directives, and in the Police Data Act (Dutch acronym: Wpg) and Decree. But the bottom line is that you are not allowed to access this data with us. How is that?
All unusual transactions reported to us remain in our database for five years, as required by the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Prevention) Act (Dutch acronym: Wwft). To give an impression of the size of this database, in 2022 we received over 1.8 million unusual transactions (UTRs). It is determined by law that the UTR-information we have, i.e. the unusual transactions and the associated personal data, fall under the classification State Secret – Secret, see Article 5 of the Government Information Security Decree – Special Information. Only authorized FIU employees have access to this information. Therefore, if a person asks us for access to his or her personal data, we are not allowed to provide it. After all, the information is state secret.
Unusual transactions are analyzed by FIU-the Netherlands to establish whether there are sufficient grounds to designate them suspicious. These transactions declared suspicious (STRs) may then be shared with the relevant intelligence, security and investigation services, such as the police and the fiscal intelligence and investigation service (Dutch acronym: FIOD). This is allowed since STRs are legally subject to the Wpg.
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No, you must be registered as a separate reporting entity in each capacity.
If, for example, you are an estate agent and a valuer, then the capacity in which you make the report depends on the situation. In such cases, you need to have two registrations with FIU Netherlands: one as an estate agent and one as a valuer. If you come across an unusual transaction in your estate agency business, you report as an estate agent; if you encounter an unusual transaction when carrying out valuations, you report as a valuer.
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Indicators of unusual transactions are listed in the 2018 Implementation Decree for the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Prevention) Act (Wwft) (Uitvoeringsbesluit Wwft 2018 [in Dutch]). These indicators differ per reporting entity. The page on reporting groups gives an overview of the various indicators per reporting group. If in your view a transaction meets one or more of the indicators that apply to your reporting group, you must report that transaction to FIU-the Netherlands.
If you have questions about how to interpret a given indicator, you can ask your Wwft supervisory authority. This page shows which supervisory authority is responsible for your reporting group. This division of roles is addressed in more detail in the FAQ “What is the role of the Wwft supervisory authorities in relation to FIU Netherlands?’’.
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Yes, you must report these unusual transactions to FIU-the Netherlands. This is required in line with one of the objective indicators set out in the Implementation Decree for the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Prevention) Act (Wwft) (Uitvoeringsbesluit Wwft 2018): “It is logical that transactions reported to the police or the Public Prosecution Service in connection with money laundering or terrorist financing should also be reported to the Financial Intelligence Unit; after all, there is an assumption that these transactions may be related to money laundering or terrorist financing”.