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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Reporting and information requirements

Article L561-19

The managers and employees of the persons mentioned in 1° to 7°c of Article L. 561-2 may disclose to the judicial authority or to officers of the judicial police acting under delegation that informati…

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

Article L561-11

I.-In accordance with the conditions laid down by decree in the Conseil d'Etat, the Minister for the Economy shall adopt measures aimed at imposing specific conditions, restricting or prohibiting the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Reporting and information requirements

Article L561-18

…ons, the persons mentioned in Article L. 561-2, the President of the Ordre des Avocats au Conseil d'Etat et à la Cour de Cassation or the President of the Bar Association with which the lawyer is regi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Reporting and information requirements

Article L561-17

Notwithstanding Articles L. 561-15 and L. 561-16, the avocat au Conseil d'Etat et à la Cour de cassation or the avocat or the caisse des règlements pécuniaires des avocats shall forward the declaratio…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Reporting and information requirements

Article L561-16

…ovided for in Article L. 561-15. They may then proceed with the transaction only if the conditions set out in the fourth paragraph of Article L. 561-24 are met. When a transaction that is required to…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Reporting and information requirements

Article L561-15

…reason to suspect to be the proceeds of tax fraud when at least one criterion defined by decree is met.III. - On completion of the enhanced examination prescribed in Article L. 561-10-2, the persons m…

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

Article L561-12

…physical medium and shall keep them for a period of five years from the execution of these operations.

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

Article L561-10

…ely for one or more products mentioned in the same 2° of Article L. 561-9.A decree of the Conseil d'Etat shall specify the categories of persons referred to in 1°, the list of products and transaction…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions relating to financial investment advisers

Article L573-11

Legal entities declared to be criminally liable, under the conditions set out in article 121-2 of the French Criminal Code, for the offences defined in article L. 573-9 shall incur, in addition to the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Provisions relating to equity financing intermediaries

Article L573-16

…iod of up to five years; 3° Posting or broadcasting the decision in accordance with the conditions set out in article 131-35 of the same code.

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