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Central: the arrest of persons involved in illegal money-changing and the closure of companies in violation of the laws in force

2020-06-02T08:15:27.929Z


Damascus-SANA The Central Bank of Syria has announced the arrest of a group of persons involved in illicit money-changing activities


Damascus-Sana

The Central Bank of Syria has announced the seizure of a group of persons involved in illicit exchange activities and that it has taken appropriate measures against them in addition to the closure of some companies that violate the laws in force within the framework of its control procedures for financial transactions.

The Central said in a statement that Sana received a copy of it today that the seizure process was carried out by the bank, represented by the government commission at the banks and the central judicial police in coordination with the Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Authority and law enforcement agencies.

The Central Bank called on citizens not to receive any external transfers from unidentified persons or in public places and the need to communicate with their relatives or relatives abroad to ensure that these transfers are sent through duly licensed exchange firms and received in Syria through them or through the internal financial transfer companies that contract with them duly By notification including the amount of the transfer, the country of transmission, and the information of the sending person.

The Central cautioned that individuals who are caught or access information indicating that they receive remittances through unknown persons will be prosecuted according to the laws of financing terrorism in the event of these persons being involved in this crime or being prosecuted for the crime of unlicensed exchange and dealing in a non-Syrian pound under the laws in force in the event that the committed crime is limited By these people on that.

And the Central showed that it was recently observed that the phenomenon of the delivery of money transfers received from abroad to beneficiaries by unidentified people in public roads after contacting the beneficiaries and agreeing on the location of delivery and most often being contacted through voice calls through social networking applications and usually the numbers used are usually Other than Syria to avoid being traced and knowing the identity of these persons, explaining that after following a group of these people who are professors of this illegal activity, it became clear that many of them work within networks located in the areas where terrorist organizations are located, and some of them are related to these groups or have criminal precedents, which led to linking the people who received Remittances through their criminal activities, whether related to unlicensed exchange and dealing in non-Syrian pounds or linked to terrorist organizations and their financing.

The Central pointed out that licensed exchange firms that obtain correspondent contract approvals with abroad are “Al-Haram, Al-Adham, Al-Fuad, Shakhashiro, Maya, Sham, Zamzam, Al-Nidhal, Al-Fadhil, Al-Mutahida, Al-Diyar, in addition to two companies that communicate across the world and Al-Fouad for internal financial transfers that have the approval of distributing Western Union transfers.”

Wasim Adawi

Source: sena

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