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Egmont Group Of Financial Intelligence Units
The Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units is an international organization that facilitates cooperation and intelligence sharing between national financial intelligence units (FIUs) to investigate and prevent money laundering and terrorist financing. National FIUs collect information on suspicious or unusual financial activity and are responsible for processing and analyzing the information received. FIUs are normally not law enforcement agencies themselves, findings are shared with appropriate law enforcement or prosecution bodies if sufficient evidence of unlawful activity is found. The Egmont Group is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. History The Egmont Group was formed in 1995 as an informal network of 24 national FIUs, taking its name from the Egmont Palace in Brussels where the group's founding meeting took place. The Egmont Group Secretariat established its permanent headquarters in Toronto on 15 February 2008. The Secretariat also maintains additional of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egmont Palace
The Egmont Palace (french: Palais d'Egmont, nl, Egmontpaleis), also sometimes known as the Arenberg Palace (french: Palais d'Arenberg, link=no, nl, Arenbergpaleis, link=no), is a Neoclassical architecture, neoclassical palace in Brussels, Belgium. It was originally built between 1548 and 1560 for Countess Françoise of Luxembourg and Lamoral, Count of Egmont, though its appearance was heavily modified in the 18th century. It was partly destroyed by fire in 1892, after which it was once again reconstructed. Today, it houses the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Belgium), Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The palace is situated in the Sablon, Brussels, Sablon/Zavel district (south-eastern part of Pentagon (Brussels), Brussels' city centre), between the / and the /. This site is served by Porte de Namur metro station, Porte de Namur/Naamsepoort metro station (on lines Brussels Metro line 2, 2 and Brussels Metro line 6, 6 of the Brussels Metro), as well as the Trams in Brussels, tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Financial Monitoring Service (Azerbaijan)
The Financial Monitoring Service of Azerbaijan is a public legal entity whose role is policy coordination, overall regulation, and supervision in the sphere of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing in the country of Azerbaijan. According to its website, the Financial Monitoring Service was established by the Decree No. 66 of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, dated 23 February 2009. The Financial Monitoring Service is the authority that implements the powers identified by the legislation on the prevention of illegally obtained funds and other property's use in the financing of terrorism in accordance with international standard. The major purpose of the Financial Monitoring Service is to supervise compliance over the requirements of prevention of criminally obtained funds or other property and the financing of terrorism, as determined by the law of Azerbaijan. It also focuses on implementing policy and overall regulation in the relevant field as well as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Crime Agency
The National Crime Agency (NCA) is a national law enforcement agency in the United Kingdom. It is the UK's lead agency against organised crime; human, weapon and drug trafficking; cybercrime; and economic crime that goes across regional and international borders; but it can be tasked to investigate any crime. The NCA has a strategic role as part of which it looks at serious crime in aggregate across the UK, especially analysing how organised criminals are operating and how they can be disrupted. To do this, it works closely with regional organised crime units (ROCUs), local police forces, and other government departments and agencies. It is the UK's point of contact for foreign agencies such as Interpol, Europol and other international law enforcement agencies. On a day-to-day basis, the NCA assists police forces and other law enforcement agencies (and vice versa) under voluntary assistance arrangements. In extremis, the NCA Director General has the power to direct a chief o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SEPBLAC
The Executive Service of the Commission for the Prevention of Money Laundering and Monetary Offenses (, SEPBLAC) is the financial intelligence unit (FIU) of the Spain, Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation. As FIU, the Sepblac is the supervisory authority for the prevention of money laundering and the financing of terrorism and the execution of sanctions and financial countermeasures of the 2010 Prevention of Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism Act. Since 30 October 2020, the director of the Executive Service is Pedro Manuel Comín Rodríguez. Its main task is to fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism and cooperating with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) of which Spain has been a member since 1990. Attached to SEPBLAC are the Central Financial Intelligence Brigade of the National Police Corps, the Investigation Unit of the Civil Guard (Spain), Civil Guard and a financial intelligence unit of the Agencia Tributaria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qatar Financial Information Unit
The Qatar Financial Information Unit (QFIU) is a Qatari government regulatory agency responsible for financial intelligence efforts to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism. Like other national Financial Intelligence Units (FIU) around the world, it requires banks, investment companies, insurers and other financial institutions to report suspicious financial transactions. QFIU then analyzes the information and disseminates the relevant data to law enforcement authorities for further investigation and action. Founded in 2004, QFIU is led by Ahmad bin Eid al-Thani. Its mission is to “protect the integrity and economy of the State of Qatar through effective exchange of information, transparency enhancement and capacity building to help detect and deter money laundering and terrorism financing activities.” The QFIU is a “semiautonomous component” of Qatar’s National Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Committee (NAMLC), and is housed in the Qatar Central ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Financial Monitoring Unit
The Financial Monitoring Unit ( ur, , abbreviated as FMU) is the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of Pakistan established under the provisions of Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2010 (Previously Anti-Money Laundering Ordinance, 2007). It is an independent intelligence service department of the Government of Pakistan and primarily responsible for analyzing transactions, money laundering cases, building efforts against the terrorist financing, and all sorts of financial crimes within the jurisdiction of financial laws of Pakistan. Ms. Lubna Farooq Malik has been appointed the Director General of the FMU with effect from July 2020. It currently comprises two offices; a head office in Karachi and a Liaison office in Islamabad. History In 2007, the Financial Monitoring Unit (FMU) was formed as a department of the State Bank of Pakistan, which is the Central Bank of Pakistan. The FMU was headed by a Director and its reporting entities were the regulated Banking Institutions coming under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Television Of Kosovo
Radio Television of Kosovo (RTK; sq, Radio Televizioni i Kosovës, sr, Радио Телевизија Косова / ''Radio Televizija Kosova'') is the public service broadcaster in Kosovo. RTK operates two radio services broadcasting a diverse programming of news and entertainment and four 24-hour television services broadcasting on terrestrial and satellite networks. History RTK replaced (The Radio Television of Prishtina, RTP), which ceased to function in July 1990. After UNMIK took over the administration of Kosovo in June 1999 and re-employed former RTP staffs, RTK began broadcasting in September 1999 via analog satellite in PAL and SECAM television broadcast standards with a daily two-hour transmission, expanding to four hours per day in November 2000, with programming mainly in Albanian and once-a-day news edition in Serbian and Turkish. The following July, it expanded to seven hours a day and began offering programming in Bosnian as well. In 2001, RTK was establ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banca D’Italia
The Bank of Italy (Italian: ''Banca d'Italia'', informally referred to as ''Bankitalia''), (), is the central bank of Italy and part of the European System of Central Banks. It is located in Palazzo Koch, via Nazionale, Rome. The bank's current governor is Ignazio Visco, who took the office on 1 November 2011. Functions After the charge of monetary and exchange rate policies was shifted in 1998 to the European Central Bank, within the European institutional framework, the bank implements the decisions, issues euro banknotes and withdraws and destroys worn pieces. The main function has thus become banking and financial supervision. The objective is to ensure the stability and efficiency of the system and compliance with rules and regulations; the bank pursues it through secondary legislation, controls and cooperation with governmental authorities. Following a reform in 2005, which was prompted by takeover scandals, the bank has lost exclusive antitrust authority in the credit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Economic Crime Bureau
The Garda National Economic Crime Bureau (GNECB; formerly Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation/GBFI) – informally known as the ''Fraud Squad'' – is a specialised division of Ireland's national police force, the Garda Síochána, that investigates economic crimes. The Bureau operates as part of the ''Garda Special Crime Operations'' branch, and works alongside other sections of the force, as well as the external Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE), an agency tasked with investigating white-collar crime. The Economic Crime Bureau is responsible for the investigation of serious financial fraud and corruption. It was established in April 1996 and is based at Harcourt Square, Dublin 2. The GNECB is headed by an officer of Detective Chief Superintendent rank, who reports to the Assistant Commissioner of Special Crime Operations. The Economic Crime Bureau investigates serious and complex cases of commercial fraud, money laundering, terrorist financing, cheque a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indonesian Financial Transaction Reports And Analysis Center
The Indonesian Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center or INTRAC ('' id, Pusat Pelaporan dan Analisis Transaksi Keuangan'') or ''PPATK'' is a government agency of Indonesia, responsible on financial intelligence. The agency is formed in 2002 to counter suspected money laundering and provide information on terrorist financing. History In 1997, Indonesia officially signed and ratified United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988. As one of signatory countries, Indonesia obliged to consider money laundering as criminal act and required to have measure to identify, trace, or confiscate money in relation to illicit traffic in narcotics drugs. At the same year, Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering is also founded, which Indonesia officially joined in 2000. The second Financial Action Task Force (FATF) FATF blacklist, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zollkriminalamt
The German Customs Investigation Bureau in Cologne (german: Zollkriminalamt, ZKA) and its investigation offices are federal agencies that fall under the German Finance Ministry. The ZKA coordinates customs investigations nationwide in particular monitoring foreign trade, uncovering violations of EU market regulations, illegal technology exports, subsidy fraud in the agricultural sector, drug trafficking and money laundering. In reaction to increasing violence, its was formed in 1997 as the customs police tactical unit for use when regular officers would be in too much danger. The Customs Investigation Offices () are directly integrated into the ZKA. There are currently eight ZFAs (in Berlin, Dresden, Essen, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich and Stuttgart) with 24 branches. They are subdivided into functional areas and investigate embargo contraventions, violations of market regulations, tax evasion and trademark violations. In addition, they have formed many join ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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