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Analytical Techniques to determine the Beneficial Owner

How is the beneficial owner determined? What analytical techniques can be used? How should transaction processes be revised to identify the beneficial owner?

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Instructor

Inonu Akgun ALP

Inonu Akgun ALP

Founder, CEO, AMLTHINK

Having started his professional life at MASAK (FIU of Turkey) in 1999, ALP has held various positions at the FIU for 20 years. 

He prepared the AML compliance report given to financial institutions annually and reported the deficiencies to the financial institutions by performing the quantitative and qualitative measurement of the financial institutions' suspicious transaction reports with the scoring system.

He played a role as AML team leader in an EU project. During his professional career, he participated in numerous international conferences and meetings.

During his Department Head position at MASAK in 2014 and 2015, he managed and mentored the establishment of MASAK information security infrastructure and obtaining ISO 27001 certification, the establishment of the e-notification system, development of Integrated Financial Intelligence System (EMIS) providing electronic communication and e- SAR system with obligated parties, issuance of AML Compliance Scorecards for financial institutions on annual basis.

Between 2015-2020, he served as Vice President of the FIU and managed the Analysis, Sanctions, and IT departments. During this period, he carried out automation of analytical processes related to money laundering and terrorist financing, harmonization of AML scenarios of financial institutions, the establishment of the infrastructure of standard information flow from financial institutions, and the preparation of sectoral SAR guidelines. He left the public service in 2021 at his own request.

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Course Content

1

INTRODUCTION and KEY CONCEPTS

- Beneficial owner
- Business relationship
- Linked transactions
- Acting on behalf of a customer
- Acting for the benefit of a customer

2

LEGAL FRAMEWORK

- International standards
- Local regulations

3

CUSTOMER DUE DILIGENCE (CDD) and ENHANCED DUE DILIGENCE (EDD)

- Identification and know your customer principles
- Simplified measures
- Analytical techniques to determine the beneficial owner
- High-risk businesses
- Transaction monitoring
- Transactions requiring special attention
- Technological risks and counter-measures
- Reliance on third parties
- Correspondent relations
- High-risk countries and linked transactions
- Refusal of the transaction
- Termination of the business relationship

4

DEFINING BENEFICIAL OWNER

- Natural persons
- Legal persons
- Other entities
- Exceptions

5

ACTING on BEHALF of an ANOTHER PERSON

- Questions to ask
- Nature and validity of the declaration

6

NON-DECLARATION of BENEFICIAL OWNER

- Data that can be used at the beginning of a business relationship
- Data that can be used in transaction monitoring processes

7

SUSPICION on BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

- Scope of "reasonable research"
- Reporting decision vs reasonable research

8

ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES AND METHODS TO DETERMINE THE BENEFICIAL OWNER

- Indicators of beneficial ownership
- Case study
- Finding links to suspicious customers
- Link analysis techniques
- A new SAR or a Supplementary SAR?

9

CASE STUDY and TYPOLOGIES

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