Publicatie 'Customs – FIU Cooperation Handbook'

The Egmont Group and the World Customs Organization (WCO) have announced the publication of the “Customs – FIU Cooperation Handbook,” the result of a collaborative effort between the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units and the WCO.

One of the objectives of the Handbook is to further promote cooperation between Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) and Customs services to effectively disrupt cross-border money laundering and terrorism financing activities.

The Handbook highlights common anti-money laundering challenges and provides recommendations to Customs services and FIUs on topics including:

• smuggling and concealment of currency, currency equivalents, gems and precious metals;

• trade-based money laundering and;

• money or value transfer systems and alternative remittance systems.

The “Customs – FIU Cooperation Handbook,” which is the first handbook to focus on improving Customs-FIU operational and strategic cooperation, was developed by a team of experts from the Egmont Group’s Information Exchange Working Group and the WCO.

The public version of the Handbook is available here.