What is the aim of the law ?

The Law of 18 September 2017 applies Directive (EU) 2015/849 of the European Parliament and the Council of 20 May 2015.

This law supplements the repressive approach to money laundering (Article 505 of the Penal Code) with a series of preventive measures carrying administrative sanctions and imposing on the specified institutions and individuals a duty to cooperate to detect suspicious transactions and facts and report them to an authority created for this purpose, the Financial Intelligence Processing Unit (CTIF-CFI).