Communicate information on violations in the context of money laundering supervision (whistleblower system)

Source: BUS Rheinland-Pfalz

Money laundering is used to smuggle illegally obtained assets into the legal economy and prevent them from being accessed by law enforcement authorities.
If you have information about potential or actual violations of the Money Laundering Act (such as non-identification of a contracting party), you can report this completely anonymously to the responsible supervisory authority.
Your tip-off can contribute to the prevention of money laundering or terrorist financing.
However, you must note that reporting via the anonymous whistleblower system is not the same as reporting a reportable suspected case to the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), which is located at the customs authorities, in accordance with the reporting obligation and the authorization to issue regulations in the Money Laundering Act. In this case, you must report your suspected case to the FIU. When submitting a report, you are not obliged to provide any personal details. The report can also be made anonymously.

You can report your information against the Money Laundering Act in writing or online and anonymously.

Written procedure:

You prepare a written report about the potential or actual violation of the Money Laundering Act. Attach evidence if available.
Important: You can submit your report anonymously in any case.
The next step is to find the responsible office, for example through the service portals of the federal states. The report can be submitted by post, by e-mail (via an e-mail address set up at short notice with immediate deletion), by fax, by telephone or via a lawyer. Upon receipt, the responsible office will check the reported information.
If your contact details are available and the competent body has any queries, your report may be discussed.
In the case of an anonymous submission, further processing will take place without contacting you.
If the information indicates a suspected criminal offense, it will be passed on to the responsible public prosecutor's office or police and followed up there.

The responsibility lies with:

Lawyers and chamber legal advisors: locally competent bar association
Patent attorneys: Chamber of Patent Attorneys
Notaries: President of the regional court in whose district the notary is based
Auditors and sworn auditors: Chamber of Auditors
Tax consultants and tax agents: Rhineland-Palatinate Chamber of Tax Consultants
Income tax assistance associations: Koblenz State Tax Office
Organizers and intermediaries of games of chance, unless they are those named in Section 2 (1) No. 15 a-c) GwG, financial companies, service providers for companies and trust assets or trustees: Supervisory and Service Directorate Trier
Insurance brokers, real estate brokers, goods dealers, art brokers, art warehouse keepers, insofar as the storage takes place in duty-free areas: Locally responsible district or city administration as district regulatory authority
Legal advisors who are not members of a bar association: President of the Regional Court of Mainz

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