Act 2008 status not recorded

Loi n° 1/02 du 4 février 2008 relative à la lutte contre le blanchiment de capitaux et le financement du terrorisme (Law n° 1/02 of 4 February 2008 on the fight against money laundering and terrorism financing)

Issued by Cellule Nationale de Renseignement Financier (National Financial Intelligence Unit)

Effective: 4 Feb 2008

Summary

Original AML/CFT law. It requires customer identification (Art. 4, including occasional transactions of 20 million BIF or more), ten-year record keeping (Art. 8), designated persons for internal control (Art. 10), reporting of suspicions to the FIU without delay (Art. 16) and supervisory fines of 1 to 50 million BIF (Art. 31). Amended in 2025.

Topics: AML / CFT / Sanctions

Who it applies to

All industries

Official source

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