U.S. Websites | International Websites

U.S. Websites

1. American Banker´s Association, http://www.aba.com: this particular site offers suggestions regarding compliance on behalf of financial institutions.  1120
Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036.  Phone #: 1-800-bankers.

2. Bank Secrecy Act, http://cfr.law.cornell.edu/cfr/cfr.php?title=31&type=part&value=103: site contains information regarding specified legislation regarding the Bank Secrecy Act.

3. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), http://www.cia.gov:  Official website for the Central Intelligence Agency.  The website contains several useful links for researching financial crimes, and the role that the CIA plays in combating such crimes.

4. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), http://www.dea.gov: Official website for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.  The DEA combats money laundering by attempting to deny criminals the ability to produce, and denial of access to illegal activities that are the source of the illicit funds of which money launderers scheme to avoid detection.

5. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), http://www.fdic.gov

6. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN), http://www.fincen.gov Hosted by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, whose overall goal is to support the myriad of domestic and international law enforcement agencies, in the global war against money laundering.  FINCEN´s mission is to support law enforcement investigative efforts and foster interagency and global cooperation against domestic and international financial crimes; and to provide U.S. policy makers with strategic analysis of domestic and worldwide money laundering developments, trends and patterns.  FINCEN works towards those ends through information collection, analysis, and sharing of technological assistance and innovative and cost-effective implementation of Treasury authorities.

FINCEN´s Office of Enforcement and Regulation; U.S. Department of the
Treasury; 270 Chain Bridge Road, Suite 200; Vienna, Virginia 22182; 800-949-2732 (Regulatory Help Line); 866-556-3974 (Hotline for Suspected Terrorist Related Activity) http://www.ustreas.gov/fincen/

FinCEN - Regulatory / BSA Forms and Filing Information
http://www.treas.gov/fincen/bsaf_main.html

FinCEN - Publications / Advisories, Bulletins, Rulings, Fact Sheets
http://www.treas.gov/fincen/pub_external_reports.html

FinCEN - Publications / External Documents
http://www.treas.gov/fincen/pub_external-reports.html

FinCEN - SAR Bulletin - Issue 4 "Aspects of Financial Transactions Indicative of
Terrorist Funding" (January 2002): http://www.treas.gov/fincen/sarbul0201-f.pdf

FinCEN Follows the Money: A Local Approach to Identifying and Tracing Criminal Proceeds (January 1999): http://www.treas.gov/fincen/followme.pdf

7. IRS Criminal Investigative Division, http://www.ustreas.gov/irs/ci/:
Official site of the Internal Revenue Service featuring the criminal investigative
arm of the administration.

8. Justice Department, http://www.usdoj.gov, The justice department is responsible for ensuring the success, and oversees the Department of Homeland Security

9. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, http://www.occ.treas.gov/:
This office serves to supervise and regulate financial institutions (specifically banks) to ensure a fair and equitable banking system.

10. Office of Foreign Assets Control, http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/: Subdivision of the U.S. Department of Treasury, administers economic and trade sanctions against international narcotic traffickers and terrorists among others, based on U.S. foreign policy as well as national security goals.

11. Treasury Department, http://www.ustreas.gov:  The Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI) develops and implements U.S. government strategies to combat terrorist financing domestically and internationally, develops and implements
the National Money Laundering Strategy as well as other policies and programs to
fight financial crimes.

12. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, http://www.customs.ustreas.gov:
U.S. Customs works in conjunction with other federal agencies to prevent the flow of narcotics and bulk cash smuggling into this country.

13. U.S. Postal Inspection Services, http://www.usps.com/postalinspectors/

14. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, http://www.sec.gov/

International Websites

1. The Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering, http://www.apgml.org/: The purpose of the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) is to facilitate the adoption, implementation and enforcement of internationally accepted standards against money laundering and the financing of terrorism, in particular the Forty Recommendations and Eight Special Recommendations on Terrorist Financing
of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF). This includes assisting jurisdictions in the region to enact laws criminalising the laundering of the proceeds of crime and dealing also with mutual legal assistance, confiscation, forfeiture and extradition. It also includes the provision of guidance in setting up
systems for reporting and investigating suspicious transactions and helping in the
establishment of financial intelligence units. The APG recognizes that regional and
country factors would need to be taken into account in the implementation of measures against money laundering and the financing of terrorism and provides for peer review by means of a mutual evaluation process. (The previous paragraph was copied from the introductory paragraph as found on the website).

2. Basel Committee on Banking Supervision - Customer Due Diligence for Banks (Basel, October 2001), http://www.bis.org/publ/bcbs85.htm

3.  Basel Committee on Banking Supervision - Prevention of Criminal Use of the Banking System for the Purpose of Money Laundering (Basel, October 2001), http://www.bis.org/publ/bcbsc137.pdf

4. The Caribbean Financial Action Task Force,  http://www.catf.org/: The Caribbean Financial Action Task Force is a collection of Caribbean Island nations (some of whom have been labeled "tax havens") which have agreed to implement common countermeasures against launderers.

5. (FATF) Financial Action Task Force, http://www1.oecd.org/fatf: The FATF is a group organization comprised of numerous Nation-States, in the joint effort to combat international money laundering through collective efforts, including the act of shaming nations that have done little to nothing (ie: tax havens) to curb this illegal activity.

6. The United Nations,  http://www.un.org/ International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (New York, December 9, 1999): http://untreaty.un.org/English/Terrorism/Conv12.pdf

UN Security Council Resolution 1373 - Counter Terrorism Committee:
http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/committees/1373/