The order of the Head of the Judiciary to the organization of inspection/identification of institutions that have not fulfilled their duties to fight money laundering

According to the Fars news agency, citing the Media Center of the Judiciary, Hojjatul-Islam wal-Muslimin Mohseni Ajeei, during the meeting to review comprehensive solutions for financial information and economic activists of the country, which was held in the presence of members of the Supreme Council of the Judiciary and the head of the country’s financial information center, during the speech aimed at He announced the holding of this meeting to eliminate some deficiencies and problems in the way of implementing anti-money laundering laws and regulations and said: Anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing laws, which have a preventive aspect, are among those laws that hope Following their strict and complete implementation, wrong procedures will be corrected, corruption will be reduced in executive and non-executive institutions, and the volume of cases in judicial authorities will be reduced.

In this regard, the head of the judiciary ordered the inspection organization to take appropriate measures in order to identify the institutions that have not fully fulfilled their duties in the fight against money laundering and regularly and continuously report the cases and results to the government. transfer

Qazi al-Qadat also asked the country’s financial information center to list those parts of the duties and tasks stipulated in the anti-money laundering and terrorism financing laws that have not been implemented by the custodian institutions including the judiciary, along with the reasons for not implementing those tasks. and transfer the collected cases to the head of the judiciary through an official letter.

Referring to the issue of tax evasion, Hojjat-ul-Islam wal-Muslimin Mohseni Ajeei stated: a documented pathology should be conducted in the country’s financial information center to determine the reason why the tax affairs organization did not inform about the economic activists who did not pay taxes until now, and now that these activists have been identified. What are the exact solutions for collecting claims from them?

The Head of the Judiciary further asked the head of the country’s financial information center that how many institutions that were required to create the necessary infrastructure under the Anti-Money Laundering Law have not completed their tasks in this regard and what are the reasons for not implementing these tasks. have been?

Referring to the issue of commercial cards, which sometimes becomes a problem for healthy economic activities, the head of the judiciary said: The basic question is which authority should take the necessary measures regarding the organization of commercial cards? Sometimes it is seen that they have given business cards to people whose profession is not related to business and commercial matters and they do not have the necessary qualifications.

Hojjat-ul-Islam wal-Muslimin Mohseni Ajei said: It is necessary to carry out the necessary diagnostics and preventions in this field, and before we try to detect crimes such as money laundering in different ways, we must find out the ways of such crimes, including the misuse of business cards and rental accounts. And the likes should be prevented by the subordinates.

Referring to some procedures in the markets such as the foreign exchange market, the head of the judicial system said: For example, it is announced that a certain amount of currency is paid to each national code, then some people collect other people’s national cards by paying sums of money. They do currency trading in this way; Therefore, restrictions and control should be adopted in such cases so that corruption and crimes such as money laundering do not take place in this way and, as a result, we do not witness an increase in court cases from this area.

Hojjat-ul-Islam wal-Muslimin Mohseni Ajei further raised the question that what are the criteria of the country’s financial information center in order to identify high-risk or high-risk individuals from a financial point of view, and based on what evidence and arguments do people fall into the category of high-risk individuals? Also, another question is whether these determined criteria have been communicated to other institutions as well or not?

In another part of his speech, the head of the judicial system, referring to the statement of the head of the country’s financial information center, which oversees the existence of 1,310 cases referred to the judicial authorities from this center, said: The Attorney General, the head of the inspection organization and the head of the judiciary of Tehran province to The members of the Anti-Money Laundering Council should follow up closely on the cases referred to the judicial system from the country’s financial information center and take the necessary measures to handle such cases accurately and quickly so that the process of investigation is clear. What was the final result of these cases?

In this regard, the judge said: If in these follow-ups it was found that a significant number of cases referred by the country’s financial information center did not have enough reasons to prove the crime and were closed, it is necessary to conduct a detailed pathology of this issue, and the reasons for closing these cases. The cases should be clearly reported to the Supreme Anti-Money Laundering Council, so that the view and criteria of this Council and the judicial system will be closer to the crime of money laundering.

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