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Article L561-11 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

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 activity, or all or part of the business relationships and transactions carried out on their own behalf or on behalf of third parties, of the persons mentioned in Article L. 561-2 with natural or legal persons, including their subsidiaries or…

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Article L561-12 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

Subject to more stringent provisions, the persons referred to in Article L. 561-2 shall keep, for a period of five years from the closure of their accounts or the termination of their relations with them, the documents and information, in whatever medium, relating to their business relations or occasional customers, as well as the due diligence measures implemented. They shall also keep, within the limits of their remit, for a…

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Article L561-14-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

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 article shall be recorded in a register separate from that instituted by article 537 of the General Tax Code. Where the customer has not authorised the financial institution to disclose his identity and tax domicile to…

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Article L561-15 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

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…

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Article L561-15-1 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

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…

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Article L561-16 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

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…

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Article L561-17 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

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…

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Article L561-18 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

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…

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