Concealment of Beneficial Ownership (Online)

This training workshop analyses how money launderers use multiple techniques to conceal ownership of assets and how intermediaries can be exploited in the process. The establishment of legal persons is often key to concealment and the module considers the degree to which law firms, accountants, trust and company service providers, as well as real estate agents, are exploited in the process.

• Techniques used to obscure beneficial ownership
  
•  Overview of commonly exploited intermediaries
  
•  Overview of vulnerabilities

AML awareness is universal and is relevant for every person, corporate, and government department. This is especially so if you work in any of the following functions:

• Accounts payable
  
• Accounts receivable
  
• Contracting
  
• Compliance
  
• Risk management
  
• Managers with responsibilities for internal AML controls.
  
• Internal and External Audit Staff.
  
• Lawyers and Support Staff.
  
• Company secretaries

Upon completion of this training workshop, you will be able:

•  To evaluate the common techniques used in ownership concealment.
  
•  To consider how intermediaries are commonly exploited.
  
•  To criticise vulnerabilities in the asset ownership process that opens the door for exploitation.