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France’s Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Countering Terrorist Financing (CFT) Measures: A Comprehensive Report

Cooperation and Coordination

In France, the Central Office for the Fight against Corruption and Financial and Economic Crime (COLB) plays a crucial role in ensuring effective cooperation and coordination at the national level. While authorities cooperate bilaterally, there is still room for improvement in collaboration between agencies responsible for supervising the same DNFBP sector.

• Effective Cooperation: COLB ensures that all relevant agencies are working together to prevent and combat money laundering.
• Room for Improvement: Despite progress, there is still a need for better cooperation between authorities responsible for supervising the same DNFBP sector.

Financial Intelligence

TRACFIN is the key agency in enriching financial intelligence by accessing various sources of information and processing them through its internal system, STARTRAC. While TRACFIN receives a substantial number of suspicious transaction reports (STRs) and other relevant information, not all available information is exploited optimally.

• Financial Intelligence: TRACFIN plays a crucial role in identifying potential money laundering cases.
• Optimizing Information Exploitation: Despite receiving a large volume of STRs and other relevant information, there is still room for improvement in exploiting this data to its full potential.

Investigation and Prosecution

France has made significant progress in investigating complex and highly complex money laundering cases. The authorities favor a “top-down” approach in prioritizing the pursuit of high-end money laundering cases.

• Effective Investigation: France’s investigative authorities are effective in identifying and investigating money laundering cases.
• Prioritization of High-End Cases: Authorities prioritize the investigation of high-end money laundering cases, which helps to prevent large-scale financial crimes.

Resources and Limitations

Investigative and prosecution authorities have adequate financial and technical resources to identify and investigate money laundering cases. However, there is a lack of specialized investigators, particularly in local and OM investigation services and in judicial investigations, which affects investigation timeframes, especially in complex and highly complex cases.

• Adequate Resources: France’s investigative and prosecution authorities have the necessary resources to effectively combat money laundering.
• Need for Specialized Investigators: Despite having adequate resources, there is still a need for more specialized investigators to address the complexities of money laundering investigations.