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Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009

Enforcement - Offences - Offences relating to suspicious activity reports and prescribed transaction reports

93: Providing false or misleading information in connection with suspicious activity reports or prescribed transaction reports

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"Telling lies or hiding truth when reporting suspicious activities"

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You commit an offence if you make a false statement when making a suspicious activity report or a prescribed transaction report. You do this by saying something you know is false or misleading. You also do this by leaving out important information that makes your statement false or misleading.

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Part 3Enforcement
Offences: Offences relating to suspicious activity reports and prescribed transaction reports

93Providing false or misleading information in connection with suspicious activity reports or prescribed transaction reports

  1. A person commits an offence who, in making a suspicious activity report or a prescribed transaction report, or in supplying information in connection with a suspicious activity report or a prescribed transaction report,—

  2. makes any statement that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular; or
    1. omits from any statement any matter or thing without which the person knows that the statement is false or misleading in a material particular.

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      Notes
      • Section 93 heading: amended, on , by section 36(1) of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 35).
      • Section 93 heading: amended, on , by section 15(1) of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 96).
      • Section 93: amended, on , by section 36(2) of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 35).
      • Section 93: amended, on , by section 15(2) of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 96).