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Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism, the government approves the Council Decision: These institutions must report within 72 hours

2025-11-12 21:13:33Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

At today's meeting, the Council of Ministers approved a decision that determines the form, manner and procedure for reporting data by Licensing and Supervisory Authorities.

According to the approved decision, licensing and supervisory authorities will immediately report, and no later than 72 hours from the moment of detection, any suspicion or information related to money laundering, terrorist financing or the financing of weapons of mass destruction, to the Financial Intelligence Agency.

Upon the proposal of the Minister of Finance, the Council of Ministers has also determined the list of supervisory authorities for legal entities in this field.

According to the decision, the supervisory authorities that must report are:

Financial Supervisory Authority

The Gambling Supervisory Agency or any other authority charged by law with gambling, casinos and racetracks

National Chamber of Advocates, for lawyers

Ministry responsible for infrastructure, for entities dealing with the trade of motor vehicles, ships, aircraft, as well as for transport and forwarding activities

Financial Intelligence Agency, for:

ç) any natural or legal person who provides certain services to clients

Public Oversight Board, for statutory auditors and approved accountants

FULL DECISION:

DESIGNATION OF SUPERVISORY AUTHORITIES

In accordance with Article 100 of the Constitution and point 5, Article 24, of Law No. 9917, dated 19.5.2008, “On the Prevention of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism”, upon the proposal of the Minister of Finance, the Council of Ministers

DECIDED:

I. Supervisory authorities, for subjects of law in the field of prevention of money laundering, financing of terrorism and financing of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, are:

1. Bank of Albania for:

a) banking entities, as well as any other entity licensed or supervised by it;
b) non-banking financial institutions;
c) payment institutions;
 ç) electronic money institutions;
d) foreign exchange offices;
 dh) savings and credit associations and their unions;
e) payment services performed by postal service providers.

2. Financial Supervisory Authority for:

a) stock exchanges and any other entity (agent, broker, commission company, etc.) that carry out activities for the issuance, consulting, intermediation, financing and any other service related to the trading of securities, including the following:

i. Receiving and transmitting orders for one or more financial instruments;
ii. Executing orders on behalf of clients;
iii. Trading on own account;
iv. Portfolio management;
v. Advising and providing investment recommendations;
vi. Underwriting financial instruments and/or placing them on the market;
vii. Operating a multilateral trading facility or organised trading facility, including stock exchanges, brokers and securities companies.

b) life insurance or reinsurance companies, their agents or intermediaries, and pension funds;
c) collective investment undertaking and pension fund management companies, and their agents;
d) any entity carrying out the activity of issuing, distributing, trading, storing and transferring digital tokens and/or digital currencies, digital token agents and automated collective investment undertakings DT;
d) any entity carrying out securities activities, which is permitted to hold or manage client money and/or assets.

3. central government bodies, for any legal entity, public entity under their jurisdiction, within their area of ??responsibility, that carry out legal actions for the alienation and provision of state property or that carry out the recording, transfer or alienation of state property.

4. The Gambling Supervisory Agency or any other authority charged by law with gambling, casinos and racetracks, of any form.

5. Ministry of Justice for:

a) notaries;
b) real estate brokers/agents;
c) other liberal professions that it licenses.

6. National Bar Association for lawyers.

7. the ministry responsible for infrastructure for any person, natural or legal, whose object of activity is:

a) trading in land, water or air motor vehicles;
b) forwarding and/or transport activities.

8. Financial Intelligence Agency for:

a) travel agencies;
b) construction companies;
c) precious metals and stones businesses;
d) any natural or legal person who provides the following services to a client:

i. Acts as a formation agent for legal entities;
ii. Acts or appoints someone else to act as a director or administrator of a legal entity, member of a partnership or in a similar position in relation to other legal entities;
iii. Provides a registered office, accommodation or address for business, official or correspondence address for a company, partnership, legal entity or legal organization;
iv. Acts or appoints someone else to act as a trustee of a legal organization or performs an equivalent function for another form of legal organization;
v. Acts or appoints someone else to act as a shareholder and/or partner of companies, which have bearer shares for another person.

d) tax advisors, as well as any other person who undertakes to provide, directly or through other persons with whom that person is related, material assistance, assistance or advice on tax matters, as their main business or professional activity.

9. Public Oversight Board for:

a) statutory auditors;
b) approved accountants.

10. the ministry responsible for culture for:

a) the sale and purchase by auction of valuable items in the field of art and culture over 1,000,000 (one million) lekë or more;
b) the sale and purchase or brokerage of works of art, including when this is carried out by art galleries or auction houses, when the value of a single transaction or of related transactions is equal to or greater than 1,000,000 (one million) lekë, regardless of whether the transaction is carried out in a single transaction or in several related transactions;
c) the storage, sale and purchase or brokerage of works of art, when this is carried out in “free zones”, when the value of a single transaction or of related transactions is equal to or greater than 1,000,000 (one million) lekë, regardless of whether the transaction is carried out in a single transaction or in several related transactions.

11. tax authorities for any individual, natural or legal person, who trades goods or services to the extent that he makes or receives payments in physical cash in an amount of 1,000,000 (one million) lek or more, regardless of whether the transaction is carried out in a single transaction or in several related transactions.

II. Decision No. 343, dated 8.4.2009, of the Council of Ministers, “On the methods and procedures for reporting to licensing and/or supervisory authorities”, is repealed.

III. The Financial Intelligence Agency and the supervisory authorities, specified in Chapter I, are responsible for the implementation of this decision.

This decision enters into force upon publication in the "Official Gazette".


PRIME MINISTER
EDI RAMA
In absence and by order
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
BELINDA BALLUKU


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