Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing

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Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing

SemestrE

Second

Language

English

ECTs

3

POWERED By

LLB

Academic area

Public Law & Global Governance

CONCENTRATIONS / TRACKS​

T- Human Rights and Social Justice
T- Law track
T-International Business Law

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites, but consider:

No prerequisites required except for interest in

OPEN TO IE STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE FOLLOWING DEGREES (SINGLE AND DUAL): OPEN TO ALL PROGRAMS

Brief description

The purpose of this course is to provide a practical introduction to money laundering and terrorist financing and the study of the international efforts to combat them.

The course will not only deal with the main aspects of the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing through the study of international standards and traditional methods and trends used, but will also focus on the competent international bodies, the mechanisms to assess compliance of countries with the international standards, as well as requirements of preventive and repressive legislation, the competent authorities, risk sectors, responsibilities of the obliged entities and typologies, among other topics.

Learning Objetives

The student will get acquainted with the basics of money laundering and terrorist financing concepts and will be able to identify the risk of money laundering, terrorist financing and economic crimes related.

The course is designed:

•To gain an understanding of the international standards to fight against money laundering and terrorist financing.
•To learn about countries’ compliance evaluation mechanisms.
•To understand the ML/FT preventive system and the obligations for obliged entities.
•To understand the requirement of international standards about the characteristics of criminalization of money lanudering and terrorist financing, and the investigation methods.
•To identify the risk of the use of new payment methods as the cryptocurrencies for money laundering and terrorist financing.
•To identify the traditional methods and trends used to launder money and move funds to finance the terrorism.