17. —(1) There is established a department under the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to be known as the Special Control Unit Against Money Laundering (in this Act referred to as “the SCUML”) which shall be responsible for the supervision of designated non-financial businesses and p...
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It offers a history of money laundering regulations in Nigeria including the National Drug Lae Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Act, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act 2002 and Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2004. It also notes the money laundering regulations in Great Britain...
Money laundering refers to the ways individual actors or criminal groups inject proceeds from their illegal activities into the global financial system to make them look like they were legitimately earned. US banks spend about $25 billion a year on processes to fight money laundering, and fines le...
Anti-money laundering policy and its effects on bank performance on Nigeria Dept. of Management and Accounting Faculty of Management Sciences.Abiola Idowu and Kehinde Obasan, `Anti-Money Laundering Policy and Its Effects on Bank Performance in Nigeria' (2012) 5(2), Business Intelligence Journal,...
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Nigeria loses US$600 million annually to money laundering. Between the mid-1980s and 1999, Nigeria lost US$100billion to money laundering. In the so acclaimed democratic era, between 2001 and 2004, the country lost an estimated US$25billion to money laundering. Nigerians who specialise in int...
Using the existing literature, this paper found out that money laundering as well as its predicate crimes has devastating effects on the socio-economic, security and political structure of Nigeria and for democracy to grow and be sustained, the menace of money laundering must be vigorously fought ...
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) are laws, regulations, and procedures that prevent criminals from disguising illegally obtained funds as legitimate income.
I was reminded of this when reading a new study examining the “Corporate Transparency Act” and the “ILLICIT CASH Act” (an acronym for “Improving Laundering Laws and Increasing Comprehensive Information Tracking of Criminal Activity in Shell Holdings Act”). Who could be for secretive companies...