Dubai Timez - List of Fines in Criminal Act
Dubai Timez | May 2022
Fine for Money Laundering & Online Crime
Fine up to Dh10 million for sharing, storing illegal online content.
By Shaifal Sayyed Published: Sat 7 May 2022, 2:30
Last updated: Sat 7 May 2022, 3:30 PM
The public
prosecution has now announced a minimum fine of Dh300,000 and a maximum penalty
of Dh10 million for sharing or storing illegal online content.
Up to Dh200,000 fine
for creating fake e-mails, websites, or even online accounts.
Dh100,000 fine, a 6-month jail term for organizing beggars.
Fine of Dirhams 1 million or more:
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Failure to take the special measures concerning the customers included in
international or local sanction lists before establishing or maintaining a business relationship.
·
Opening or maintaining bank accounts using an alias, fictitious or fake names, or
numbers, rather than holders’ names.
·
Dealing with unauthorized banks in any way whatsoever.
Fine of Dirhams
200,000 or more:
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Not taking enhanced due diligence measures to manage high risks.
·
Not notifying the Financial Information Unit of a suspicious transaction report
when it is not possible to take due diligence measures towards a client before
establishing or continuing a business relationship with him or carrying out a
transaction for the benefit of the client or in his name.
·
Failure to respond to FIU’s requests for additional information regarding any
reported suspicious transactions.
·
Disclosing, directly or indirectly, to the customer or a third party, the
process of, or intention to, report the customer due to suspicions about the
nature of the business relationship with the customer
· Failure to implement the measures identified by the National Committee for Combating Money Laundering in respect of customers from high-risk countries
Fine of Dirhams
100,000 or more:
Failure to identify and evaluate risks that may arise in his
field of work when he develops the services he provides or undertakes new
professional practices through his establishment.
·
Not taking due diligence measures towards clients before establishing or
continuing a business relationship or executing a transaction in the name of or
for the benefit of the customer
·
Not verifying – using documents or data from a reliable and independent source
– the identity of the customer and the real beneficiary or their deputy before
or during the establishment of the business relationship or the opening of the
account, or before carrying out a process for a client with whom he has no
existing business relationship.
· Delay in informing the Financial Information Unit of a suspicious transaction report in the event of suspicion or the availability of reasonable grounds to suspect that the business relationship with the customer is related to the crime in whole or in part, or that the client’s money subject to the business relationship is from the proceeds of crime or used in it
Fine of Dirhams 50,000 or more:
·
Failure to train staff on combating money laundering and terrorism financing
·
Failure to ensure competent authorities’ access, upon their request, to the
information related to customers’ due diligence and continued monitoring, as
well as the findings of analyzing the same, and the records, files, documents,
correspondence, and forms pertaining to both sides.
·
Failure to keep records of the financial transactions and relevant documents
for five years from the date of transaction completion, or the expiry of the
business relationship with the customer, or the completion of inspection of
their facility.
·
Create records to save the financial transactions with the customers in an
irregular manner that does not enable data analysis and financial transaction
tracking
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Failure to appoint a compliance officer
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Not taking due diligence measures for continuous monitoring, of clients
during the business relationship
·
Not taking necessary procedures to understand the nature of the client’s
business, the ownership structure of his work, and the extent of the client’s
control over it.
·
Not taking necessary measures to understand the purpose and nature of the
business relationship, or he did not seek to obtain information related to this
purpose when needed.
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Not taking simplified due diligence measures to manage low risk.
·
Not setting internal policies, procedures, and controls at his facility to
combat the crime or engaging in a suspicious business relationship.
· Not taking the necessary measures and procedures to reduce the identified risks according to the results of the national risk assessment, or the results of the self-assessment, given the nature and volume of his work.
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