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Reporting Requirements for Anti-Money Laundering in Angola

Mandatory Reporting of Suspicious Transactions

Besides the transactions mentioned above, subject entities are required to report suspicious transactions, irrespective of the amounts involved, to the UIF.

Filing Reports


  • Reports should be filed with the headquarters of the UIF through hard copy documents, email (comunicacoes@uif.ao), or other means indicated by the UIF.
  • The report must be accompanied by a copy of all documents collected or records made.

Cross-Border Transactions Reporting Requirements

Who is Subject to the Requirements?


Refer to questions 3.6 and 3.7 above for information on reporting requirements for domestic transactions.

What Must Be Reported Under What Circumstances?


  • Refer to questions 3.6, 3.7, and 3.17 below (not provided in the text).

Customer Identification and Due Diligence Requirements

Financial institutions and other businesses subject to anti-money laundering requirements must verify the identity of their customers and maintain accurate records.

Customer Verification


  • Verifying the identity of natural persons.
  • Verifying the incorporation of legal entities.
  • Identifying trusts and other legal arrangements, verifying the identity of their trustees, settlors, and beneficiaries.
  • Identifying the ultimate beneficiaries, whether the client is a natural or legal person or a trust or other legal arrangement.

Due Diligence Requirements


  • Obtaining information on the purpose and nature of the business relationship.
  • Maintaining a continued monitorization of the business relationship to ensure underlying operations are consistent with knowledge about the client, its business, and risk profile.

Special or Enhanced Due Diligence Requirements

Certain types of customers may require special or enhanced due diligence requirements.

Who Requires Enhanced Due Diligence?


  • When the client’s or operation’s nature, complexity, volume, non-habitability, lack of economic reasoning, susceptibility of being deemed as a crime, or any other high-risk factor justifies.
  • Distance operations, operations that may favor anonymity, operations involving politically exposed people, operations of banking correspondence with banking institutions located abroad, and any other operations specified by supervisory authorities.

Prohibition on Financial Institution Accounts for Shell Banks

Banks and payment service providers are prevented from establishing correspondent relationships with shell banks. They must also avoid engaging in correspondent relationships with financial institutions that allow their accounts to be used by a shell bank.

Reporting Suspicious Activity

Subject entities are obliged to report all committed, attempted or ongoing activities they know or reasonably suspect are connected with the offenses of money laundering, terrorism financing, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, or any other criminal offense.

Information Sharing Mechanisms

There is no mechanism facilitating information sharing between financial institutions and other business subject to anti-money laundering controls. However, subject entities are obligated to promptly provide the information requested by the UIF, supervisory authorities, and judicial authorities.

Beneficial Ownership and Control

There is not yet a Central Beneficiary Register in Angola. Accurate information about the beneficial ownership and control of legal entities is not maintained or available to government authorities.

Originators and Beneficiaries Information

Accurate information about originators and beneficiaries should be included in payment orders for a funds transfer, as well as in payment instructions to other financial institutions.