Prevention of Money Laundering

• Understand the phenomenon of money laundering from economic/financial, legal and jurisprudential perspectives.
• Understand the legal obligations of professionals whose responsibilities put them in contact with capital movements.
• Explore the modus operandi of money launderers from criminological and jurisprudential viewpoints.

Business owners, professionals from the banking sector, economists, and other professionals working in the economic or trade sectors who consider this sort of training relevant to their responsibilities.
Lawyers, professionals in the justice administration, notaries, registrars, and other professionals in the field of law who consider this sort of training relevant to their work.

Session 1: Monday, 19th April 2010

• Background and international recommendations on the prevention of money laundering.
• The origin of the phenomenon and the international organisations responsible for addressing it.
• The transnational scope of money laundering.
• The magnitude of the phenomenon in the 21st century.
• Administrative treatment of money laundering prevention.
• The Executive Service for the Prevention of Money Laundering.
• Internal control and communication organisations.

Practice

• Examples of money laundering: real estate, urban planning and banking.

Session 2: Monday, 26th April 2010

• Parties obliged to participate in the prevention of money laundering.
• Risk factors in money laundering.
• Effects of money laundering at the international scale, on the economy and the financial system, and on society.
• The process of money laundering: introduction, mobilisation, investment and liquidation.

Practice

• Examples of money laundering: real estate, urban planning and banking.
• “Know your client.”

Session 3: Monday, 3rd May 2010

• Analysis of typical penalties for the crime of money laundering. Application of typical elements.
• Study of Article 301 (ff.) of the Penal Code.
• Jurisprudential study of money laundering. Means of proving and assessing the crime.

Practice

• Criminal and procedural problems related to money laundering. Jurisprudential application.

Program Director Barcelona

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Barcelona