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Real Estate Professionals Precious Metals and Stones Dealers Auditors and Accountants Company Formation and Legal Professionals Why Read This Book?
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Case studies 1. Part A – Precious metals and stones 2. Precious metals and stones originate from a country where there is limited production or no mines 3. Selling or buying precious metals and stones between two local companies through an intermediary located abroad (lack of business justification. uncertainty as to actual passage of goods between the companies 4. Volume of purchases and/or imports that grossly exceed the expected sales amount 5. Payments related to the appearance of rare or unique precious stones in the international market outside of known trading procedures like annual tender process 6. Transactions/financing of precious metals and stones trade-Financial activity is inconsistent with practices in the precious metal and stone trade. 7. Deposits immediately followed by withdrawals, atypical of practices in the precious metal and stone trade, including circular transactions .... 20. Part B-Real Estate Sector 21. Transactions involving individuals residing in tax havens or risk territories 22. Transactions involving an individual whose address is unknown or is merely a correspondence address (for example, a PO Box. 23. Individuals who unexpectedly repay problematic loans or mortgages or who repeatedly pay off large loans or mortgages early, particularly if they do so in cash. 24. Unusual Transactions Involving Legal Persons with No Apparent Business Activity 25. Unusual Transactions in a Non-Profit Entity ...... 34. Part C-Auditors and accountants 35. Auditor Encounters Non-Cooperative Client with Illicit Cash-Based Money Sources 36. Auditor Encounters Non-Cooperative Client with Excessive Concern for Compliance Matters 37. Auditor Encounters Client with No Digital Footprint and Unverifiable Business Activity 38. Auditor Encounters Client with Unreachable Directors and Multiple Beneficiaries 39. Auditor Encounters Client Using Pooled Client Account Without Justification 40. Auditor Encounters Client on Sanctions List Involved in Terrorist Financing .. ... 44. Part arrangements 45. Sudden Financial Activity in a Long-Inactive Legal Entity 46. Complex Structures in Legal Entities with Multiple Beneficiaries and Signatories 47. Rapid Capital Funding and Zero-Balance Accounts in Legal Entities ..