A consultation document for amendments to the anti-money laundering law prepared by the Agency for Regulation and Development of the Financial Market (ARDFM) proposes lowering the thresholds for financial transactions that are considered suspicious. Currently, the document is available for public consideration.
The draft document proposes to revise the current rules that require commercial banks to report to the government about high-risk clients. The agency now believes that this practice is questionable from a legal point of view as it can encourage banks to terminate relationships with such clients.
If the proposal is approved, national security agencies will be responsible...