The master's thesis deals with the supervision of financial transactions in order to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing. It first defines the concepts of prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing and highlights the need for legislation to prevent both. It then goes on to outline the regulation of the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing in the international, European and Slovenian legal orders. The main part of the master's thesis presents the crucial institutions and measures adopted to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing introduced by the new Slovenian legislation. The final part highlights the problems of the current regime.
Money laundering and terrorist financing pose a threat to the integrity of the economy and the financial system and represent an international challenge as well as a pressing problem in the Slovenian regulatory space. In Slovenia, the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing is implemented to a large extent through the Act on Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (ZPPDFT-2), which entered into force on 5 April 2022. The Act provides for the obligations of entities that are obliged to implement measures to detect and prevent money laundering and terrorist financing. These measures include, in the first place, a risk assessment, which is a necessary precondition for the implementation of the customer screening measure. However, the implementation of customer screening is essential to identify transactions, business relationships and customers where there is a suspicion of money laundering and terrorist financing. For the purpose of monitoring financial transactions, obliged persons are also obliged to establish their own AML/CFT policy, to establish internal controls over the implementation of the legal tasks and to cooperate with the competent authorities for the prosecution of money laundering and terrorist financing offences. Although the new legislation increases and streamlines the supervision of financial transactions and establishes more effective measures to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing, the current regime is still problematic in some respects.
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