Keeping real estate clean
schedule 11 March 2019
The purchase of property has the potential to be used by organised criminals to launder the proceeds of criminal activity. This is due to the significant amounts of criminal funds which can be "cleaned" in a single transaction. It is therefore critical that all professionals working in the sector are acutely aware of the issues and appropriately trained to identify and report any suspicions of money laundering.
The problem is increasing. Based on the PwC “Global Economic Crime and Fraud Survey 2018”, 54 pct of respondents involved in money movement (and/or any of the following lines of business: financial institutions, mutual funds, money service businesses, broker dealers, insurance companies, or dealers in precious metals, stones or jewels) indicated they had experienced an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulatory enforcement or inspection in the last two years (up by 4 percentage points from 2016). And an identical proportion (54 pct) expect recent changes in the geopolit
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