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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Customer due diligence obligations

Article L561-10-3

I.-When a person mentioned in 1° to 1°c or 5° to 6°a of Article L. 561-2 has a cross-border correspondent relationship with a financial institution located in a country that is not a member of the Eur…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Persons subject to obligations to combat money laundering and terrorist financing

Article L561-2-1

For the purposes of this chapter, the notion of business relationship means the professional or commercial relationship with the customer and includes, where applicable, the beneficial owner. In the c…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Transmission of information

Article L561-30-1

When the investigations conducted by the department referred to in Article L. 561-23 uncover facts likely to involve the laundering of the proceeds of an offence punishable by a custodial sentence of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Powers and prerogatives

Article L561-25-1

I. - The department referred to in Article L. 561-23 may request information from the funds set up pursuant to 9° of Article 53 of Law No. 71-1130 of 31 December 1971 relating to the amount, origin an…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Customer due diligence obligations

Article L561-10-2

The persons referred to in Article L. 561-2 shall carry out an enhanced review of any transaction that is particularly complex or involves an unusually large amount or does not appear to have any econ…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L561-36-1

I. - The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall have the power, with regard to the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing, to impose its obligations on the persons ment…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Customer due diligence obligations

Article L561-14-2

The provisions of the second paragraph of Article 537 of the General Tax Code do not prevent the application of Article L. 561-5 of this Code. However, the information referred to in the latter articl…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Customer due diligence obligations

Article L561-9-1

If there is no suspicion of money laundering or terrorist financing, the persons who issue electronic money referred to in 1°, 1° ter and 1° quater of Article L. 561-2 are not subject to the due dilig…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Customer due diligence obligations

Article L561-7-1

Lawyers and the persons mentioned in 18° of Article L. 561-2 may provide each other with information gathered for the purposes of implementing Articles L. 561-5, L. 561-5-1, L. 561-6, and L. 561-9 to…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Exchange of information

Article L561-29-1

I. - The department referred to in Article L. 561-23 may also communicate as soon as possible, at their request or on its own initiative, to counterpart foreign financial intelligence units informatio…

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