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This presentation by Simon Goddard at MOLI Serbia outlines effective strategies for a national response to financial crime, money laundering, and terrorist financing. It emphasizes the importance of implementing effective controls to ensure the integrity of businesses and financial systems while minimizing economic distortions. Key steps include developing a cohesive national strategy, establishing training standards, and empowering governmental entities to enforce compliance. Additionally, the presentation covers criminal asset strategies, financial investigations, and the primary objectives of dismantling criminal organizations and seizing illegal assets.
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Best Practices for Success Simon Goddard MOLI Serbia 31 August 2012
National strategy • Effective controls • Criminal Assets Strategy • Financial Investigation
Four basic reasons for having effective money laundering controls • To provide a disincentive to crime • To aid the detection and prosecution of crime • To protect the integrity of business and the financial system • To avoid economic and competitive distortions
Three Key Steps • A national strategy against financial crime, money laundering, and terrorist financing; • A national strategy for training in these areas that includes the setting and monitoring of national standards; and; • A governmental entity to devise, develop, and deliver those national standards and to ensure compliance with them
Criminal Assets Strategy • Criminal confiscation powers • Civil forfeiture and recovery powers • Using taxation powers • Enforcing the recovery of confiscated and forfeited funds • Promoting best practice and delivering training
Financial investigation • The hierarchy of the organisation • The size of the organisation • Individual responsibilities • Particular expertise
Primary Objectives • The arrest of the principals • The dismantling of the organisation • The seizure of criminally derived assets • The disruption of the criminal activity