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Croatian Perspective of Suspicious Transactions in a Framework of Anti-Money Laundering System

This article highlights certain issues related to the multiple meaning of the term suspicious transaction and its complex nature. Following the basic international definitions of suspicious transactions, national legislations try to adjust them to domestic conditions. The results of selected legislative frameworks are presented through the statistical analysis of three Western European countries and the Republic of Croatia. The statistical analysis of the reversal which happened in suspicious transactions reporting aims at highlighting the importance of suspicious transactions in interrelations between reporting entities and Financial Intelligence Units and emphasizing their role in further proceedings related to reports when there is a suspicion of money laundering and/or terrorism financing. The results confirms that The Republic of Croatia is still in the process of seeking the most effective system of money laundering prevention emphasizing the importance of suspicious transactions and made them a basis for recent legal regulation.

money laundering, suspicion, transaction, risk, prevention, indicator

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