Records of actual owners of limited liability companies and joint stock companies This diploma thesis deals with the records of actual owners of limited liability companies and joint stock companies. The aim of the thesis is to introduce the basics of the institute of records of actual owners and then to discuss its key features and problematic issues associated with it. At the beginning, the thesis outlines the evolution of the institute of records of actual owners, and further evaluates the potential to meet the goals associated with the introduction of the evidence. At the same time, the thesis draws attention to the pitfalls that the records can bring in practice. The thesis also deals with the issues related to the extent of the mandatory information about the actual owner and the issues related to the storage and handling of such information. The thesis leads a discussion to interpret the relevant provisions to keep a balance between the necessary prerequisites for fulfilling the meaning and purpose of the records and the rights of a legal persons. In the following chapters, the thesis focuses on the definition of the actual owner and on the systematization of the ways in which a natural person or group of natural persons can be an actual owner. The thesis interprets the provision defining...

Submitted by Ana Valéria de Jesus Moura (anavaleria_131@hotmail.com) on 2018-09-17T15:56:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Ricardo do Espírito Santo.pdf: 1502520 bytes, checksum: c94ffc27b4ead4a2f32a0fde3bf5d64e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Valéria de Jesus Moura (anavaleria_131@hotmail.com) on 2018-09-17T15:56:20Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Ricardo do Espírito Santo.pdf: 1502520 bytes, checksum: c94ffc27b4ead4a2f32a0fde3bf5d64e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-17T15:56:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ricardo do Espírito Santo.pdf: 1502520 bytes, checksum: c94ffc27b4ead4a2f32a0fde3bf5d64e (MD5) / Com o advento dos avanços tecnológicos, a interação supranacional das relações socioeconômicas tem-se erigido de forma profícua, de modo a viabilizar maior circulação de capital. Em contrapartida, é nesse ambiente desenvolvimentista que a criminalidade econômica organizada avança, mormente por meio da utilização de atividades profissionais lícitas como instrumento viabilizador da circulação de capitais, via ocultação e dissimulação de origem ilícita para sua inserção na economia formal. Com vistas à investigação desse fenômeno, o presente trabalho objetiva analisar o fundamento e o limite da participação delitiva sob a forma de cumplicidade por meio do exercício profissional contábil na lavagem de capitais, denominado de cumplicidade por meio de ações neutras. E, para a composição dessa análise, optou-se pela abordagem metodológica de caráter qualitativo mediante uma revisão de literatura especializada de cunho descritivo-exploratório acerca do concurso de pessoas enquanto elemento fundamental à compreensão dos limites da responsabilidade penal nos casos de lavagem de capitais. O estudo nuclear desse trabalho recai sobre os fundamentos da responsabilidade penal na cumplicidade por meio de ações cotidianas na prestação de serviços contábeis, buscando demonstrar o fundamento político criminal que permite isentar de responsabilidade penal comportamentos profissionais exercidos legalmente, e os fundamentos dogmáticos que demonstram a inexistência de colaboração delitiva com o fato praticado por terceiro. A doutrina desenvolve uma variedade de construções teóricas que buscam solucionar a problemática da cumplicidade por ações cotidianas no âmbito da tipicidade objetiva, tipicidade subjetiva, analisando sobre as duas perspectivas da tipicidade objetiva-subjetiva, existindo, inclusive, proposta de solução no campo da antijuridicidade. Resultados: a colaboração para o crime de lavagem de capitais, realizada por meio da prestação dos serviços contábeis, é solucionada no âmbito da tipicidade objetiva: primeiro, em razão do princípio da proporcionalidade, que demonstra a inidoneidade do Direito Penal para proteger o bem jurídico protegido na lavagem de capitais por meio da proibição de prestação dos serviços contábeis; segundo, pela aplicação do filtro normativo da imputação objetiva, demonstrando que os serviços contábeis, em que pese o alto risco para a lavagem de capitais, é um risco juridicamente tolerável. Conclusão: o exercício profissional contábil representa atividade juridicamente tolerada impunível, não ingressando na conduta típica do autor, submetido, ainda, aos deveres de colaboração com a persecução penal antilavagem nos termos da Lei 9.613/1998, comunicando operações suspeitas e atípicas, sendo assim autorizado está a prestar seus serviços mesmo em circunstâncias de elevado risco para a realização da lavagem de capitais. / With the advent of technological advancements, the supranational interaction of socioeconomic relations has proficuously emerged in order to enable greater capital circulation. Conversely, within this developmental environment, organized economic criminality progresses, chiefly through the use of licit professional activities as enabling instruments for capital circulation, by means of concealment and dissimulation of illicit origins for insertion in the formal economy. In order to investigate this phenomenon, the present work aims at analyzing the basis and limits of delinquent participation in the form of complicity by means of professional accounting practices in the laundering of capital, known as complicity through neutral actions. A qualitative nature methodological approach was chosen to compose the analysis, through a specialized descriptive-exploratory character literature review of the concourse of people as fundamental element to understanding the limits of criminal liability in cases of money laundering. The core study of this work lies on the foundations of criminal liability for complicity by means of everyday actions in the provision of accounting services, seeking to demonstrate the criminal political foundation that allows to exempt legally performed professional practices from criminal liability, as well as the dogmatic grounds indicating the non-existence of delinquent collaboration with the fact practiced by third parties. Doctrine develops a variety of theoretical constructions that seek to solve the problem of complicity by everyday actions within the scope of objective vagueness and subjective vagueness, analyzing both perspectives of objective-subjective vagueness, also including an existing solution proposal in the field of anti-legality. Results: Collaboration with the crime of money laundering, carried out through the provision of accounting services, is solved within the scope of objective vagueness. First, due to the principle of proportionality, which demonstrates the inaptitude of Criminal Law to protect the legal interest from money laundering by prohibiting the provision of accounting services. Secondly, by the application of the objective imputation normative filter, showing that accounting services, despite the high risk for money laundering, encompass a legally tolerable risk. Conclusion: The professional accounting practice represents an unpunishable legally tolerated activity, not entering the typical conduct of the author, also submitted to the duties of collaboration with the anti-money laundering criminal prosecution, under the terms of Law 9.613/1998, reporting suspicious and atypical operations, thus being authorized to provide such services, even in circumstances of high risk for the purpose of money laundering.

Submitted by Marilene Donadel (marilene.donadel@unioeste.br) on 2018-12-07T10:40:22Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Matheus_Nicola_2018_Pt1.pdf: 5945862 bytes, checksum: 42710c05a8dd3b08374b75d5279059a9 (MD5) Matheus_Nicola_2018_Pt2.pdf: 5252616 bytes, checksum: 8f8b69b2a2a6793fe4701e598722a16f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-07T10:40:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Matheus_Nicola_2018_Pt1.pdf: 5945862 bytes, checksum: 42710c05a8dd3b08374b75d5279059a9 (MD5) Matheus_Nicola_2018_Pt2.pdf: 5252616 bytes, checksum: 8f8b69b2a2a6793fe4701e598722a16f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-09-06 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The aim of this research was to estimate, in the short term, the impact of corruption on the income level of the economy and well-being of the Brazilian and Paraná society, by means of the input-output inter-regional Paraná and the rest of Brazil model, in the year 2008. To achieve this objective, it was necessary to collect information from the Accountability Tribunals of the Union and the state of Paraná judgments, to formulate the fate of corruption hypothesis and the corruption repeal hypothesis, to calculate the impact of corruption on the Income level and welfare. To approximate the analysis of the reality, the hypothesis of evasion and/or hoarding of corruption money was also tested. The results show that, in the short term, corruption stimulates the economy product and consequently increases the income level and welfare on Paraná and Brazil society. However, corruption has negative effects only if the amount evaded and/or enshrined is, on average, more than 50% of the amount diverted from the public purse. The indicators-summary of the economic structure clarify that part of this result is explained by the least degree of interconnection between economic sectors tied to government spending. The evidence of the results indicates that tolerance to corruption may be related to the short-term stimulus that corruption provides to the economy, but that tolerance diminishes as society perceives when the levels of income and economic well-being it don't increase in the long run. Another evidence of the results of this research is that combating currency evasion can alleviate the negative effects of corruption on the Brazilian and Paraná economy, and that the fight against the crime of money laundering would reduce the distortions between the system of national accounts and the real product of the economy. / O objetivo dessa pesquisa foi estimar, no curto prazo, o impacto da corrupção sobre o nível de renda da economia e bem-estar da sociedade brasileira e paranaense, por meio do modelo de insumo-produto inter-regional Paraná e o restante do Brasil, no ano de 2008. Para alcançar esse objetivo foi necessário coletar informações dos acórdãos dos tribunais de contas da União e do estado do Paraná, formular as hipóteses de destino da corrupção e de revogação da corrupção, para então calcular o impacto da corrupção sobre o nível de renda e o bem-estar social. Para aproximar a análise da realidade, também foi testada a hipótese de evasão e/ou entesouramento da corrupção. Os resultados mostram que, no curto prazo, a corrupção estimula o produto da economia e, por consequência, aumenta o nível de renda e bem-estar paranaense e brasileiro. Entretanto, a corrupção apresenta efeitos negativos somente se o montante evadido e/ou entesourado for, em média, superior a 50% do valor desviado do erário público. Os indicadores-síntese da estrutura econômica esclarecem que parte desse resultado é explicado pelo menor grau de interconexão dos setores econômicos atrelados aos gastos do governo. As evidências dos resultados indicam que a tolerância a corrupção pode estar relacionada ao estímulo de curto prazo que a corrupção proporciona à economia, mas que essa tolerância diminui à medida que a sociedade percebe que os níveis de renda e bem-estar econômico não aumentam no longo prazo. Outra evidência dos resultados dessa pesquisa é de que o combate à evasão de divisas pode amenizar os efeitos negativos da corrupção sobre a economia paranaense e brasileira e, ainda, que o combate ao crime de lavagem de dinheiro reduziria as distorções entre o Sistema de Contas Nacional e o real produto da economia.

Ce mémoire traite du blanchiment d’argent. Précisément, il propose une réflexion sur la question suivante : les avocats, cabinets d’avocats et notaires du Québec devraient-ils être assujettis à la Loi sur le recyclage des produits de la criminalité et le financement des activités terroristes? Pour en arriver à une réponse, nous dressons d’abord une définition du recyclage des produits de la criminalité et en analysons l’historique. Puis, nous étudions la pièce maitresse de la stratégie canadienne de prévention du blanchiment d’argent, soit la Loi sur le recyclage des produits de la criminalité et le financement des activités terroristes. Par la suite, nous examinons la question de l’assujettissement des avocats, des cabinets d’avocats et des notaires du Québec en exposant le risque de blanchiment d’argent chez ces professionnels, les multiples tentatives du législateur canadien de légiférer en la matière et une analyse de la décision récente de la Cour suprême du Canada sur ce sujet. Enfin, nous offrons des solutions à l’assujettissement de ces professionnels afin d’éliminer le risque de voir leurs services utilisés à des fins illégitimes. / This thesis focuses on money laundering. Specifically, it reflects on the following question: should lawyers, law firms and Quebec notaries be subject to the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act? In order to obtain an answer, it first sets out to seek a definition of money laundering and examines its history. Furthermore, the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act is analyzed in great detail. Finally, the question whether lawyers, law firms and Quebec notaries should be included in the scope of the Act is studied by exposing the risk of money laundering with these professionals and by undertaking an examination of the Canadian legislator’s multiple attempts to include them as well as an analysis of the Supreme Court of Canada’s recent decision on that matter. In conclusion, it proposes solutions to include these legal professionals in order to eliminate the risk that their services will be used for illicit purposes.

Income tax in South Africa is levied in terms of the Income Tax Act, 58 of 1962 (the South African Income Tax Act) on taxable income, which by definition, is arrived at by deducting from ''gross income" receipts and accruals that are exempt from tax as well as deductions and allowances provided for in the Act. The South African Income Tax Act provides no guidance with regard to the taxation of income and expenditure from illegal activities. In this mini thesis, case law and legislation is reviewed in an attempt to provide clarity on the tax consequences of income and expenses arising from illegal activities. An overview is provided of the taxation of income and expenditure in respect of illegal activities in the United States of America, Australia and New Zealand. Similarities are found between the American, Australian, New Zealand and South African tax regimes in relation to the taxation of income earned from illegal activities, but there appears to be more certainty in America, Australia and New Zealand with regard to the deduction of expenses arising from illegal activities. In South Africa, taxpayers earning income from ongoing illegal activities will, in principle, comply with the definition of “trade” as defined in section 1 of the South African Income Tax Act. However, this is contrary to the view of the South African Revenue Service that illegal activities do not meet the definition of “trade”, a viewpoint that may not hold if challenged in court. Recommendations are made for the amendment of the South African Income Tax Act to specifically provide for the inclusion in “gross income” of income from illegal activities and to prohibit the deduction of expenditure arising from illegal activities.

Le secret professionnel est un concept qui a connu un succès sans précédant dans la plupart des pays à l’échelle internationale. Il s’est généralisé à toutes les professions et à tous les domaines, de telle sorte qu’il devient aujourd’hui un élément indispensable dans tous les secteurs d’activités. C’est pourquoi, le législateur lui réserve une place privilégiée dans l’arsenal juridique. Notre droit positif, en s’inspirant des législations des pays démocratiques, prévoit des règles spéciales applicables à l’obligation du secret professionnel. En effet, l’article 446 du code pénal marocain pose le principe général du secret professionnel. Il met à la charge des professionnels une obligation générale de ne pas révéler au grand public des secrets confiés par leurs clients. Cette obligation légale relève de l’ordre public à laquelle on ne peut y déroger.L'application de la règle générale du secret professionnel souffre toutefois d'exceptions dans les hypothèses expressément et limitativement définies par la loi ou expressément prévues par les parties dans leurs conventions. Ces dérogations sont généralement établies au profit d'administrations et d'autorités administratives et judiciaires, de collectivités, services et organismes publics. En dehors de ces cas limitativement prévus par la loi qui autorisent larévélation par le professionnel du secret de nature professionnelle, il existe d’autres hypothèses de la levée de tels secrets, sans pour autant engager la responsabilité du confident. Il en ira ainsi, de l’infraction du blanchiment d’argent et le domaine des nouvelles technologies d’information et de communication, communément appelé le domaine duNumérique. La violation du secret professionnel par un agent de l'Administration entraîne l'application de sanctions pénales et, le cas échéant, de sanctions civiles, sans préjudice des sanctions disciplinaires pour manquement à la discrétion professionnelle. / Professional secrecy is a concept that has known unprecedented success in most countries worldwide. It has been generalized to all professions and areas such that it has become an indispensable tool for all sectors. For this reason, the legislature has placed professional secrecy on a privileged level of the legal arsenal. Our Positive Law, drawing on the laws of democratic countries, lays down special rules applicable to the obligation of professional secrecy. Indeed, Article 446 of the Moroccan Penal Code establishes the general principle of confidentiality. It imposes on professionals a general obligation not to disclose customers’ secrets to the public. This legal obligation relates to public order; from which we cannot derogate. The implementation of the general rule of professional secrecy allows exceptions in certain cases expressly and restrictively defined by law or expressly provided by parties in their agreements. These obligations are generally drawn up for administrations, administrative and judiciary authorities, communities, government departments and agencies. Apart from these legally prescribed and limited cases which authorize disclosure of professional secrets, thereexist other instances which permit the lifting of such secrets, without, however, engaging the liability of the confidant.This could be applicable to the infraction of money laundering and to the field of new information and communication technologies, commonly called the Digital Domain. The violation of professional secrecy by an agent of the Administration entails the execution of penal sanctions and, eventually, civil penalties, without prejudice to disciplinary sanctions forviolating professional secrecy.

The primary objective of this diploma thesis is to comprehensively present the issue of money laundering not only on a macro level but also in terms of commercial bank and its microeconomic response to it. The main contribution of this diploma thesis is to identify the global indicators, which should be considered when drafting strategies in the fight against the legalization of proceeds from crimes. This diploma thesis addresses the changes caused by current globalization and highlights the dangerous effects it has on evolution of this consequent criminal activity together with evaluation of its potential in the future. Due to the tense situation in Europe caused by the series of terrorist attacks, part of the work is dedicated to the explanation of the relationship between terrorist financing and money laundering.

The research was conducted as a result of the researcher‟s concern that the possibility exists that members of the different law enforcement agencies in South Africa might have a misconception about the mandate and functions of the Financial Intelligence Centre. If such a misconception in fact exists, it poses a huge challenge towards fruitful co-operation among the Centre and the different law enforcement agencies. The researcher identified certain practical problems, namely, that investigators are not aware of the types of intelligence that the Centre could provide them with, and that investigators might not be informed about the specific procedures to follow when they need to request intelligence from the Centre. The research has shown that, in the past, the Centre has been a useful source of crime intelligence concerning a range of predicate offences including narcotics, fraud and tax related crimes. The research has further found that, although the majority of participants gained a lot of experience in law enforcement and investigations, they had limited awareness about the Financial Intelligence Centre and its functions. This research project studied the utilisation of the Financial Intelligence Centre as a crime intelligence source. / Police Practice / M. Tech. (Forensic Investigation)

Allt fler banker tillämpar artificiell intelligens (AI) i syfte att bekämpa finansiell brottslighet. Med den ökade användningen av AI uppkommer etiska utmaningar som banker behöver hantera för att säkerställa en god etik vid nyttjande av AI vid finansiell brottsbekämpning. Syftet med studien var att undersöka vilka ställningstaganden som ligger till grund för hur banker som använder AI hanterar etiska utmaningar inom finansiell brottslighet. Studien bygger på en kvalitativ ansats med semistrukturerade intervjuer för insamling av empiri samt en litteraturstudie för att besvara frågeställningen. En tematisk analys har gjorts för hur banker hanterar etiska utmaningar vid nyttjandet av AI för att bekämpa finansiell brottslighet, vilket ledde till följande slutsatser: banker hanterar etik både på individuell och organisatorisk nivå genom att undvika partiskhet, följa lagkrav, vara transparenta gentemot kunder att de övervakas samt följa upp beslut fattade av AI. Studiens resultat diskuteras utifrån etiska förhållningssätt såsom utilitarism, pliktetik och dygdetik. / More and more banks are applying artificial intelligence (AI) to fight financial crime. With the increased use of AI, ethical challenges arise that banks need to handle in order to ensure good ethics when using AI when fighting financial crime. The purpose of the study was to investigate which stances are the basis for how banks that use AI handle ethical challenges in financial crime. The study is based on a qualitative approach with semi-structured interviews to gather empirical evidence and a literature study to answer the research question. A thematic analysis has been made of how banks deal with ethical challenges when using AI to fight financial crime, which led to the following conclusions: banks deal with ethics both at an individual and organizational level by avoiding bias, complying with legal requirements but using the exceptions that exist for combating money laundering, being transparent to customers that they are being monitored, following up on decisions made by AI. The study's results are discussed based on different ethical approaches such as utilitarianism, duty ethics and virtue ethics.

The aim of this paper is to research how advanced accounting software can be used by police detectives, financial risk specialists and forensic investigation specialists, who are responsible for the investigation and tracing of the reintegration of proceeds of crime, from underground banking into formal banking system (pro active and reactive money laundering investigation) with a view on criminal prosecution. The research started of by looking at the basic ways how proceeds of crime are smuggled before it is integrated into the formal banking system. In that context, the phenomenon of Underground banking was researched. Currency smuggling, Hawala currency transfer schemes and the way in which it is used to move proceeds of crime were discussed in detail. Thereafter Formal banking and the way in which proceeds of crime is reintegrated from underground banking structures into formal banking systems were discussed. The use of advanced accounting software to trace the point where proceeds of crime are reintegrated into formal banking were researched extensively. Accounting software and investigative techniques on how to trace financial transactions which might be tainted with proceeds of crime were discussed. Accounting software which can be used on office computers such as laptops were discussed and more advanced automated systems which can be used to trace proceeds of crime transactions in the formal banking systems were also discussed. In specific, the investigative techniques on how to use these systems as investigative tools were discussed in great detail. This research paper gives a truly unique perspective on the financial investigative and analytical angle on proceeds of crime and money laundering detection. / Criminal Justice / M.Tech. (Forensic Investigation)