Book V: Service providers

I. – The persons mentioned in Article L. 561-2 shall be required, under the conditions laid down in this chapter, to report to the department mentioned in Article L. 561-23 the sums entered in their books or transactions involving sums which they know, suspect or have good reason to suspect originate from an offence punishable by a custodial sentence of more than one year or are linked to the financing…

I. – The persons referred to in Article L. 561-2 shall send the department referred to in Article L. 561-23 the information relating to certain transactions presenting a high risk of money laundering or terrorist financing due to the country or territory of origin or destination of the funds, the nature of the transactions in question or the legal structures involved in these transactions. A decree of the Conseil d’Etat…

The persons mentioned in Article L. 561-2 shall refrain from carrying out any transaction involving sums which they know, suspect or have good reason to suspect originate from an offence punishable by a custodial sentence of more than one year or are linked to the financing of terrorism until they have made the declaration provided for in Article L. 561-15. They may then proceed with the transaction only if the…

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 declaration, as appropriate, to the President of the Ordre des avocats au Conseil d’Etat et à la Cour de cassation or to the President of the Bar Association with which the avocat is registered or to the President…

The declaration referred to in Article L. 561-15 is confidential. Subject to the provisions ofArticle 19 of the aforementionedAct 78-17 of 6 January 1978, it is prohibited, on pain of the penalties provided for in Article L. 574-1, for managers and employees of financial institutions, 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…

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 information has been transmitted to the department mentioned in Article L. 561-23 pursuant to Article L. 561-15. In this case, the judicial authority or officers of the judicial police may request confirmation from this department of the…

I. – By way of derogation from Article L. 561-18 and unless the department mentioned in Article L. 561-23 objects, the persons mentioned in 1° to 7° bis and 7° quater of Article L. 561-2, as well as their subsidiaries and branches, shall inform each other of the existence and content of the declaration provided for in Article L. 561-15 when the following conditions are met: a) The information is…

Notwithstanding Article L. 561-18, the persons mentioned in 1° to 7°c and in 12°, 12°a, 13°, 18° and 19° of Article L. 561-2 may, when acting for the same customer and in the same transaction or when they have knowledge, for the same customer, of the same transaction, inform each other, by any secure means, of the existence and content of the report provided for in Article L. 561-15. These…

I. – No proceedings based on articles 226-10, 226-13 and 226-14 of the French Criminal Code may be brought against : a) The persons mentioned in Article L. 561-2 or their directors and officers or the authorities mentioned in Article L. 561-17 when they have, in good faith, made the declaration provided for in Article L. 561-15 under the conditions prescribed by the applicable legislative or regulatory provisions or when…