Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime Laws in Malaysia (eBook)

This book is an essential tool for judges, legal practitioners, reporting institutions, law enforcement agencies, scholars, researchers, academicians, and university students. This book details the most up-to-date laws, legislations, cases, regulations, international frameworks and provides a practical guidance towards its implementation. The detailed analysis on the principles and complexities of anti-money laundering and financial crime laws in each chapter is done in a simplified and structured manner, with clear headings that make it easy for referencing.


Key features
• Comprehensive analysis of the obligations and duties of reporting institutions
• Analysis on the AML/CFT offences provided under the legislations
• Analysis on the powers given to the competent authority, supervisory authority, law enforcement agencies, and investigators
• Analysis on the variety of orders provided under AMLATFPUAA 2001
• Review of all major relevant cases from Malaysia and commonwealth jurisdictions
• Examination on bona fide third parties
• Discussion on constitutional issues
• Evaluation on compoundonal issues • Evaluation on compound