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Assessment of AML/CFT Practices and Suspicious Activity Reporting in the European Union member states
Vandasová, Daniela ; Pečená, Magda (advisor) ; Šíla, Jan (referee)
i Abstract This thesis presents an analysis of potential drivers of the numbers of suspi- cious transactions as precursors to money laundering conducted on the Euro- pean Union Member States between 2016 and 2021, and subsequently assesses the efficiency of the existing list of EU-recognized predicate offences to money laundering and financing of terrorism during this time period. Another con- tribution of this thesis is the consideration of the COVID-19 pandemic and assessment of its potential effects. This thesis used a newly compiled dataset containing EU-recognized predicate offences, enforcement factors, and macroe- conomic indicators. Based on the results of this analysis, the main drivers of suspicious transaction levels in the European Union between 2016 and 2021 were drug-related offences and the presence of the global pandemic of COVID- 19. Subsequently it was concluded that the list of predicate offences as recog- nized by the European Union was possibly not efficient in identifying plausible streams of money laundering during the analyzed period. Policy recommenda- tions that could arise from this analysis include promoting consistent reporting of indicators used in international legislation to allow for the development of a stronger data-based structure for further policy evaluation and...

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