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Anti-Money Laundering Definitions

The Anti-Money Laundering Bill of Nauru defines several key terms related to anti-money laundering. Here are the definitions:

Beneficiary Entity


  • An entity that receives or will receive an electronic currency transfer.

Intermediary Entity


  • An entity that facilitates an international electronic currency transfer on behalf of the originating entity and beneficiary entity (or another intermediary entity).

International Electronic Currency Transfer


  • A single or chain of electronic currency transfers where one of the parties is located outside Nauru (the originating entity, intermediary entity, or beneficiary entity).

Money Laundering


Elements of Money Laundering

  • Deal or dealing with property
  • Property is criminal property
  • Criminal property is connected to criminal conduct

Money or Value Transfer Service


  • A service that involves accepting currency, cheques, monetary instruments, or other stores of value and paying a corresponding sum to a beneficiary.

Occasional Transaction


  • Any transaction not taking place in the context of a business relationship.

Originating Entity


  • A financial institution that receives a request from a person to execute an electronic currency transfer.

Politically Exposed Person


(Note: The definition is not provided, but is available under Clause 6.)

Property


  • Assets of any kind, including documents or instruments in electronic, digital, or other form, evidencing title to or an interest in, any such assets.

Record


  • Material on which data or information is recorded or marked and capable of being read or understood by a person, computer system, or other device.

Reporting Entity


(Note: The definition is not provided, but is available under Clause 7.)

Secretary


  • Means the Secretary for Justice and Border Control.

Sender


  • A person who requests a reporting entity to execute an electronic currency transfer.

Senior Management


  • Directors of the reporting entity or key employees with responsibility for overseeing the reporting entity’s proper conduct.

Shell Bank


  • A bank incorporated or licensed in a country without physical presence and not affiliated with a financial group subject to effective consolidated supervision.