BKA warnt vor neuen Geldwäsche-Methoden Frankfurt / Main (AP) - More and more new stitches on money laundering and spying on bank accounts make people's lives difficult. The Federal Criminal Police (BKA) is currently warns against letting enlisted as a so-called "financial agent" on the Internet.
BKA President Joerg Ziercke warned people against letting to hire on the Internet as a so-called financial agent. The commission would be made available to private accounts regularly used to conceal illegal money flows, he said on Wednesday (September 1) in Frankfurt during the presentation of the annual report by the BKA department for financial crimes.
was 2009, the number of money-laundering intelligence unit in Germany by 23 Percentage increased to 9046, reported Ziercke. Have risen above all the charges against the financial agent (2394 to 971 cases last year), to forward the payments to criminal backers. Ziercke welcomed the increasingly harsh sanctions against frivolous citizen.
In nearly half of all suspicious transaction reports (46 percent) has confirmed the suspicion of a crime according to the BKA. In most cases involved fraud, but also great determination complexes against organized crime have been pushed to the money laundering suspicions. In 98 procedures, the police suspected covert financing of terrorist groups.
New dangers seen the investigators with Internet- and mobile-based payment systems that would allow some anonymous user. The mostly in Ireland or Britain sitting service hired inexperienced agents. So far, about 750 agents were registered, reported the president of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), Jochen Sanio. It constitutes the Bank would have to be to small businesses such as Internet cafes and travel agencies, which are taken under supervision. Transactions for money laundering would be taken out of the highly sensitive financial markets and shifts in unregulated areas. "Money launderers are among the most creative people on this planet."
Many of the laundered proceeds originate from illegal according to BKA be granted to accounts or fraudulent Internet transactions. The online banking will always be uncertain, Ziercke warned that handles not even his bank transactions on the computer. Hundreds of thousands of citizens were affected. there were now three families of computer spyware that attacked the previously "unimaginable scale" targeted the German I-Tan process, he said.
The president defended themselves against criticism of the German EU-money laundering policies. Sanio did, however, the EU's criticism of the lack of fines as its own. With the administrative law capped the amount of maximum 100 000 € "they are almost a joke" by international standards.
Source: General
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