Lawyers have corresponding rights and duties in accordance with the Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan “On the Prevention of the Legalization of Criminally Obtained Funds or Other Property and the Financing of Terrorism» (hereinafter – Law).
Exemption from any liability for breach of any restriction on disclosure of the bank or other legally protected secrecy, as well as causing the material and moral damage emerged as a result of the disclosure of information, when the information on the transaction which is subject to monitoring to the Financial Intelligence Unit (hereinafter – FIU) is submitted to the FIU in good faith and in the manner defined by this Law;
To be informed about the results achieved as a result of submission of information to FIU.
identification and verification of customers and beneficial owners;
acquiring of information on the purpose and essence of business relationships from customer and regular update of the information;
application of additional identification measures on high-risk transactions;
taking measures for identification of politically exposed persons or beneficiaries of foreign States;
identification of purpose and essence of all complex, large-scope, unusual, as well as clearly non-economic or illegal transactions and development of written report on them;
storage of relevant documentation for at least five years;
when required by law, development and introduction of internal control systems;