The Finance Minister plans three pillars in the fight against money laundering.
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Berlin Finance Minister Christian Lindner wants to reorganize the fight against money laundering and financial crime. To this end, he wants to set up a new federal authority that will pool the previously fragmented competencies.
The “Spiegel” first reported on this on Tuesday. Accordingly, three pillars are planned: A Federal Criminal Police Office, which is also to be newly established, is to have its own search area and real investigative powers. The previous anti-money laundering unit FIU is supposed to use computer programs to filter out cases from the suspicious activity reports that the investigators are investigating.
The third pillar should be a coordinating central office for the supervision of the so-called non-financial sector – such as the real estate industry and the gambling industry, in which, according to the report, a particularly large amount of black money is smuggled back into the regular economic cycle. “I propose a paradigm shift,” Lindner told Der Spiegel. “We must follow the money trail consistently, rather than settle for uncovering a crime related to money laundering.”
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