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According to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). potential risk indicators related to money laundering proceeds from environmental crimes include. (Select Two.)

The correct answer is B. frequent payments from companies in the logging. milling, or waste trade sectors to individuals or C. unexplained wealth and cash transfers involving senior officials or politically exposed persons for. FATF identifies sector-specific payment patterns and politically exposed persons as key red flags for money laundering proceeds from environmental crimes.

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Question

According to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). potential risk indicators related to money laundering proceeds from environmental crimes include. (Select Two.)

Options

  • Awaste management sector companies based in high-risk jurisdictions with payments or trade
  • Bfrequent payments from companies in the logging. milling, or waste trade sectors to individuals or
  • Cunexplained wealth and cash transfers involving senior officials or politically exposed persons for
  • Dsmall cash transfers from cash-Intensive businesses to beneficiaries in areas known as a source

How the community answered

(24 responses)
  • A
    17% (4)
  • B
    75% (18)
  • D
    8% (2)

Why each option

FATF identifies sector-specific payment patterns and politically exposed persons as key red flags for money laundering proceeds from environmental crimes.

Awaste management sector companies based in high-risk jurisdictions with payments or trade

While waste management companies in high-risk jurisdictions warrant scrutiny, company location alone is a general AML risk factor and not a FATF-specific indicator tied to environmental crime proceeds.

Bfrequent payments from companies in the logging. milling, or waste trade sectors to individuals orCorrect

Frequent payments from logging, milling, or waste trade sector companies to individuals are a direct FATF indicator because these payments may represent proceeds from illegal resource extraction, deforestation, or waste trafficking funneled through sector participants.

Cunexplained wealth and cash transfers involving senior officials or politically exposed persons forCorrect

Unexplained wealth and cash transfers involving senior officials or politically exposed persons are flagged because environmental crimes - such as illegal mining or logging - frequently involve bribery and corruption of government officials who oversee natural resource licensing and enforcement.

Dsmall cash transfers from cash-Intensive businesses to beneficiaries in areas known as a source

Small cash transfers from cash-intensive businesses describe general structuring typologies and do not align with FATF's environmental crime-specific risk indicators, which focus on sector payment flows and official corruption.

Concept tested: FATF environmental crime money laundering risk indicators

Source: https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/Methodsandtrends/Money-laundering-environmental-crime.html

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#environmental crime proceeds#FATF ML indicators#green financial crime#PEP unexplained wealth

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