This training course introduces the anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism programs. Case studies and simulation exercises will illustrate the discussed points.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
Define money laundering and terrorism..
Start Date:
11 May, 2026.
End Date:
13 May, 2026.
This training course introduces the anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism programs. Case studies and simulation exercises will illustrate the discussed points.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Define money laundering and terrorism financing,
- Identify sources of laundered money,
- Discuss money laundering cycle;
- Identify agents of money laundering and terrorism finance
- Apply various methods of preventing money laundering and terrorism financing.
Course Outline
- Legal framework and anti-money laundering players
- Regulatory requirements
- European directives
- COMOFI provisions
- Criminal law provisions
- Anti-money laundering players :
- At the global scale : Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering
- Organization and TRACFIN mechanisms
- Other players
- Anti-laundering operations - declaration of suspicion
- Bodies subjected to the declaration of suspicion
- Operations subjected to the declaration of suspicion
- Information mentioned in the declaration of suspicion
- Transmission to the TRACFIN and legal guarantees
- Implementation stages and most common techniques of capital laundering
- The laundering process
- Investment
- Stacking-up (aka concealment)
- Integration (aka conversion)
- Review of several techniques that can be simply detected :
- Intervention of a Politically Exposed Figure (PEF)
- Cash remittances or withdrawals with no economic justification
- Agents using multiple bank accounts
- Advanced laundering operations : pass-through entities and offshore structures
- Using pass-through-entities
- Using offshore financial structures
- Other specific techniques : using the art market and the real estate market
