Anti-Money Laundering Regulation
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Chapter I – General provisions
Chapter II – Internal policies, procedures and controls of obliged entities
Chapter III – Customer due diligence
Chapter IV – Beneficial ownership transparency
Chapter V – Reporting obligations
Chapter VI – Information sharing
Chapter VII – Data protection and record retention
Chapter VIII – Measures to mitigate risks deriving from anonymous instruments
Chapter IX – Final provisions
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Chapter III – Customer due diligence
Article 39
Prohibition of correspondent relationships with shell institutions
1. Credit institutions and financial institutions shall not enter into, or continue, a correspondent relationship with a shell institution. Credit institutions and financial institutions shall take appropriate measures to ensure that they do not engage in or continue correspondent relationships with a credit institution or financial institution that is known to allow its accounts to be used by a shell institution.
2. In addition to the requirement laid down in paragraph 1, crypto-asset service providers shall ensure that their accounts are not used by shell institutions to provide crypto-asset services. To that end, crypto-asset service providers shall have in place internal policies, procedures and controls to detect any attempt to use their accounts for the provision of unregulated crypto-asset services.
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