Aims at optimizing information exchange processes with analogous foreign units
The Financial Information Unit (FIU) incorporated changes to information exchangeswhich include requesting the judicial authority if it will be for intelligence purposes or as probative element of a cause.
In this way, through the resolution 66/2023 published this Tuesday in the Official bulletinthe FIU made progress in the optimization of information exchange processes with foreign analog units.
Reform It is proposed to standardize the requirements processed at the request of a judicial authority and improve efficiency in exchanges with the adding a template formthus adjusting local regulations to the international standards applicable in terms of Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing.
What is the measure?
The resolution that It will come into effect on May 17. states that to process the request for information, the judicial authority will be requested competent to indicate whether it will be used for intelligence purposes or to incorporate Judicial process as evidence.
You must also make a brief description of the facts that motivate the requestprovide data that allow the identification of the persons or goods involved that are relevant for the purposes of the request, and establish the presumed link with the jurisdiction to which the requested body belongs.
This requirement must be made through the “Information Exchange Form”and sent through the form accessible from the FIU website.
Source: Ambito
