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    The judiciary warns against digital money and reveals methods of money laundering in Iraq

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    Post by Rocky Wed 31 Aug 2022, 7:02 am

    The judiciary warns against digital money and reveals methods of money laundering in Iraq

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    Economy News _ Baghdad
    Today, Wednesday, the Rusafa Investigation Court, which is specialized in issues of integrity, money laundering and economic crime, confirmed the ability of the regulatory and judicial authorities to reduce the crime of combating money laundering, warning of a new phenomenon that has occurred in the financial sector in Iraq, which is the phenomenon of virtual money or virtual money that has no real existence. and entering them without any legal or official control, which could be a conducive pathway for the money laundering process. 
    Regarding the extent of the control level over funds and the mechanism for their follow-up, Judge Munjid Ghazi Faisal said, in a statement followed by "Economy News", that "transfers carried out by all financial institutions, both internally and externally, are subject to the (national division) system established by the Central Bank as a component of the infrastructure of the system. Retail payment in Iraq, which one of its objectives was to create a (database) for these transfers, as well as the information obtained from the Real-Time Gross Settlement System (RTGS), which provides a mechanism through which processing and settlement of high-value payment orders and any information about that". 
    Judge Ghazi pointed out that "the Anti-Money Laundering Law, in Article 14, stipulated that all governmental and private financial institutions, whether related to banks or automated payment companies, create an anti-money laundering department in order to activate the governance procedures in these institutions, but the work of this section Observations at the practical level, specifically with regard to private financial institutions, are tainted in that it does not have the independence necessary to exercise its supervisory work, since the wages owed to its employees are paid through the institution itself, which needs more precise regulation by the Central Bank.
    On the other hand, Ghazi touched on "a new phenomenon that has begun to occur in the financial sector in Iraq, which is the phenomenon of virtual money, which does not have a real existence and is traded only through mathematical algorithms on the Internet and works without any legal or official control," warning of “It is a conduit for money laundering and tax evasion.”
    He pointed out that "this money differs from electronic money, which is the subject of automatic payment systems, and it is legitimate money that refers to real cash," calling on the legislator "to address this phenomenon by issuing appropriate legislation to deal with it, especially with the historical collapse of its value that we have witnessed recently. ".
    Ghazi promised that money laundering is one of the “most dangerous crimes,” noting that “the reasons for the danger lie in its extremely negative impact on the national economy, as well as being a transnational organized crime, in addition to the money obtained from it is often used to finance other serious crimes such as terrorism and drugs.” "The seriousness of this crime also comes from the criminals' use of high-tech means that intelligently and deliberately try to circumvent the national and international legal texts that criminalize it."
    He stressed, "These reasons prompted the world to seek to confront them, whether at the level of international cooperation or through national legislation undertaken by individual countries." 
    Al-Qadi added, "One of the most prominent forms of international cooperation to confront this crime is the establishment of the FATF (Financial Action Task Force), an international organization established in Paris and working to enact international standards for combating money laundering and terrorist financing, and it also conducts permanent assessments. To assess the extent to which countries comply with these legal and regulatory standards, this group has developed a series of recommendations that have become international standards to combat this crime and is also working to identify weaknesses at the international level with the aim of protecting the international financial system.
    He added: "As a result of important judicial efforts undertaken by the Supreme Judicial Council through its various circulars and the efforts of the competent courts, including the Court of Integrity, Money Laundering and Economic Crime, in addition to other bodies such as the Central Bank of Iraq and the Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and others, whose basis was to work on implementing the recommendations of the Financial Action Group, All this recently resulted in the European Union issuing a decision to remove the name of Iraq from the list of high-risk countries, which increased the factor of reassurance in the Iraqi banking system towards the world and encouraged the opening of branches of foreign banks inside the country.
    He pointed out that "Iraq is actively seeking to join these institutions as the (Egmont) group, which is an informal network of financial information units aimed at strengthening international cooperation and exchanging information, and this group provides a base for financial information units in the member states, and the Supreme Judicial Council, aware of the importance and danger of this The crime has issued a set of circulars emphasizing the (parallel financial investigation) procedure, which is mainly concerned with the prosecution of the financial proceeds of the crime,” noting that “the crime of money laundering is an accessory crime that arises after the occurrence of an original crime from which illegal funds are realized. Courts are now pursuing illegal funds in Any place, even if it moved through several people and through a system of independent procedures.” 
    Al-Qadi continued: "On the national level, Iraq is proceeding with the completion of the legislative structure to combat this crime, in addition to the set of legislation and regulations that have been issued so far, as the Anti-Money Laundering Law No. 39 of 2015 required financial institutions to undertake a set of procedures related to performing due diligence to verify the sources of funds and the extent Their legitimacy, the identities of clients, knowing the nature of the work, as well as monitoring financial transfers, maintaining the necessary records to restrict these financial operations, and not opening accounts for unidentified persons. 
    And he called, "that the Anti-Money Laundering Office must be immediately informed of any operation suspected of involving money laundering or terrorist financing, which in turn studies and analyzes all these reports and prepares suspicious reports sent to it, noting that this office is in constant contact with other parties to complete the system of procedures as a department. Prevention in the Integrity Commission if the suspect is an employee or the proceeds of crime are related to public money.
    To strengthen these procedures, the judge pointed out that “the exchange offices, as one of the financial institutions covered by the anti-money laundering law, are subject to the ongoing procedures of the Court of Integrity and the fight against economic crime and money laundering permanently to reduce the phenomenon of unauthorized exchanges, as well as to ensure the extent to which the authorized exchanges comply with the instructions and controls of the bank. The Central Bank, where legal measures are taken against violators and referred to the competent courts in accordance with Articles (57 of the Banking Law No. 94 of 2004), as well as Articles (36, 39, 40, 41 and other Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Law No. 39 of 2015).
    And he spoke about “cases related to sums of money transferred by citizens legitimately, but sometimes some exchanges seize them and do not transfer them to the destination to which they were sent,” noting that “the court takes legal measures in accordance with Article (453 of the penal code in force) against the owners of those exchanges.” He stressed that "not every transfer of money abroad through exchange offices is a crime. Sometimes a sum of money is transferred through exchange offices whose source is legitimate, but this transfer is marred by violations related to the legal validity of the exchange in the foreign transfer, so the legal description differs, as for the money smuggled outside Iraq. Being one of the proceeds of crime, this is what the description of the money laundering crime applies to.”
    Ghazi identified the most important obstacles facing the work of the court and other regulatory bodies in combating this crime, foremost among which is the “weak international cooperation and the lack of responses from counterpart units of anti-money laundering offices in other countries, especially those that are safe havens for smuggled funds, in addition to the lack of full application of the regulations Automation in some important departments, such as the Real Estate Registration Department, explaining that “most of the perpetrators of money laundering crimes buy real estate with huge amounts to hide that money or camouflage from their sources of income, as well as to legitimize those funds by selling these properties later and transferring those funds abroad to give the illusion that they come from sources legitimate or use them to finance projects and investments at home because of the difficulty of converting them due to control measures or because of the economic deterioration in the regional environment and the depreciation of the currency of those countries, which contributed to a significant increase in real estate prices in Iraq. He continued, "

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