Event


29 January 2025 Online

Anti-Money Laundering

Published 3 weeks, 5 days ago

Objective

This three-hour long webinar, which forms a part of a larger project on European Criminal Law for Defence Lawyers, focuses on EU anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) measures and practical matters in its application. 
It will explain and take a closer look at the EU’s 2024 AML and CFT package and its effect on lawyers, as well as other existing EU AML and CFT legislation that is of relevance to lawyers. Challenges regarding AML and criminal defence in the evolving EU regulatory framework will also be examined. Insights from practitioners familiar with these instruments who have worked with them in practice will be shared.

Key topics

  • The EU’s latest 2024 anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) framework 
  • Right to interpretation and translation of essential documents
  • How to work with interpreters and translators

Who should attend?

Participation is only open to lawyers in private practice who are citizens of eligible EU Member States participating in the EU Justice Programme (Denmark does not participate) including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo* and Ukraine.

*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.