In the report on suspicious transaction the grounds for the transaction to be considered suspicious should also be mentioned.

SR IV. Reporting suspicious transaction related to terrorism

A transaction (a contract) can be considered as suspicious, if

AMLO has received some suspicious transaction reports from financial institutions.

Financial institutions have the legal obligation to urgently report transactions suspected to involve terrorist activities to AMLO as a suspicious transaction within 7 days from the date of executing the transaction.

The Central Bank has received 9 suspicious transaction reports on money laundering activities.

Up to now, AMLO has received, on average, 2,600 suspicious transaction reports a month.

According to the Anti Money Laundering Act B.E. 2542 (1999), there are 3 kinds of financial transactions that financial institutions have the legal obligation to report to the Anti Money Laundering Office (AMLO), namely 1) cash transaction reports, 2) properties transaction reports and 3) suspicious transaction reports.

The draft law establishes under what circumstances a financial transaction is subject to special oversight (in other words, is considered a suspicious financial transaction ).

Banks and other financial institutions have been provided with the 1267 Committee List and are required to treat any transaction with a person entity on the list as suspicious and submit Suspicious Transaction Returns to the Financial Investigations Unit (FIU).

Therefore, for example, investigators may request bank statements for a period prior to a suspicious transaction.

Obligatory Know Your Customer and Suspicious Transaction Report requirements have been introduced for banks by 117 States, and extended to NBFIs by 105 and to other entities by 40.

Suspicious transaction reports are important as a means of ensuring customer due diligence in identifying potential money laundering activities.

Brazil indicated (at page 14 of the fourth report), that the number of suspicious financial transaction reports (STRs) that resulted in investigations, prosecutions or convictions, would be provide by 31 October 2004.

Ms. Chung transferred the 5 million proceeds in Goldfingers Bank to 15 bank accounts in country Zeitstaat (suspicious transaction reporting).

Section 18.3, Section 18.5 and Section 18.6 of the Prudential Regulation 2002 requires banks financial institutions to report suspicious activities maintain record of any single cash transaction above Nu. 5 million and report to the Royal Monetary Authority for any private cash transaction above 0.5 million for foreign currency and 1 million for Indian rupees.

10 2001 and the annexed guidelines define the criteria and principles to be followed by employees for detecting a suspicious transaction.

Required bank reporting procedures, if any, including the use of Suspicious Transaction Reports (STR), and how such reports are reviewed and evaluated.

Article 30 of Supreme Decree No. 24771 sets out the obligation of financial entities to submit Suspicious Transaction Reports to the FIU.

Required bank reporting procedures, if any, including the use of Suspicious Transaction Reports (STR), and how such reports are revised and evaluated.

It could be noted here that the criteria for suspicious transaction reporting vary from one State to another some set out a certain amount of money as the threshold for reporting, whereas others take a more generic approach, where banks are required to report transactions they think are suspicious , regardless of the amount.

Normative legal acts of the Central Bank can establish other grounds, not mentioned in this part, for considering transactions as suspicious, based on which the persons submitting the reports are bound to regard the transaction as suspicious.

A financial intelligence unit is a national centre for receiving (and, as permitted, requesting), analysing and disseminating suspicious transaction reports and other information regarding potential money laundering.

The person performing the financial transaction suspects that its purpose is to legalize funds or finance terrorism, or if the transaction is suspicious by virtue of other characteristics figuring on a list established by the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus

These task forces attempt to identify terrorists through analysis of a variety of data and do not rely solely on know your customer records and Suspicious Transaction Reports.

Effective implementation of paragraph 1 of the Resolution requires that financial institutions and other intermediaries (for example, lawyers, notaries and accountants, when engaged in brokering activities, as distinct from the provision of professional advice) should be under a legal obligation to report suspicious transaction.

The CTC is grateful for the detailed report on suspicious transactions (at page 13) of the fourth report.

Information provided by States shows that 71 require money transmission services to acquire a license or to register, with 65 applying suspicious transaction reporting rules to registered licensed money transmitters.

Only 24 States require charities and other non profit organisations to report suspicious transactions.

In most cases, the mandates of FIUs included the collection and analysis of suspicious transaction reports with a view to detecting money laundering activities and passing on relevant information to judicial authorities.

Report to the Authority any business transaction where the identity of the persons involved, the transaction or any other circumstances concerning that business transaction gives any officer or employee of the financial institution reasonable grounds to believe that the transaction involves the proceeds of crime.

Report of the administrator of the international transaction log under the Kyoto Protocol

Could Thailand please confirm whether such professionals do report suspicious transactions to the Thai Financial Intelligence Unit?

The Decree makes it obligatory to identify customers and report suspicious transactions in respect of the following activities.

Suspicious incidents

New professions that were obliged to report suspicious financial transactions were accountants, lawyers and dealers in high value goods.

Report of the administrator of the international transaction log under the Kyoto Protocol (Agenda item 6)

Are financial institutions, other intermediaries and other natural or legal persons required to report suspicious transactions to the relevant authorities?

Currently, no specific act in Benin's legislation requires the notary or attorney to report the fraudulent origin of suspicious transactions.

Know your customer policy Customer transaction profile Information on cash transaction Information on foreign currency transaction

According to Section 16 of the Anti Money Laundering Act, lawyers, accountants and notaries have the legal obligation to report suspicious transactions to the Anti Money Laundering Office (AMLO) if (a) they are engaged in a business of operating or advising to engage in investment transactions or the movement of capital, and (b) where there is probable cause to believe that such transactions are linked to an asset resulting from a commission of terrorist offenses or is a suspicious transaction.

The staff of the persons submitting the reports who provide services to the customers, in case of qualifying the transaction (deal) as suspicious, shall be notified about the fact that the Authorized Body is informed about the given customer.

Indicators to report transactions relating to terrorist financing to the Unusual Transaction Reporting Centre (the FIU) have been adopted.

(d) Simplification of the administration of transaction and lower transaction costs.

Ms. Dee withdrew the funds ( 5 million) from the 15 individuals' accounts from numerous automatic teller machines in small denominations in Zeitstaat over a period of time (suspicious transaction reporting, including the use of information technology for the purpose of its analysis).