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- Council of Europe Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime and on the Financing of Terrorism (CETS No. 198) (Warsaw, May 16, 2005)
- Chapter V - Co-operation between FlUs
- Article 47 - International co-operation for postponement of suspicious transactions
Article 47 - International co-operation for postponement of suspicious transactions
Article 47 - International co-operation for postponement of suspicious transactions
1 Each Party shall adopt such legislative or other measures as may be necessary to permit urgent action to be initiated by a FIU, at the request of a foreign FIU, to suspend or withhold consent to a transaction going ahead for such periods and depending on the same conditions as apply in its domestic law in respect of the postponement of transactions.
2 The action referred to in paragraph 1 shall be taken where the requested FIU is satisfied, upon justification by the requesting FIU, that:
a the transaction is related to money laundering; and
b the transaction would have been suspended, or consent to the transaction going ahead would have been withheld, if the transaction had been the subject of a domestic suspicious transaction report.