The duty of lawyers' associations to supervise lawyers in terms of compliance with laws and regulations against money laundering and terrorist financing

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-Wednesday 2025/11/12 - 16:53
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تکلیف کانون های وکلا برای نظارت بر وکلا از حیث رعایت قوانین و مقررات مبارزه با پولشویی و تأمین مالی تروریسم

  Lawyers' associations and lawyers' center, official experts and family advisors of the judicial branch, depending on the case of the trustee

  Lawyers' Associations and Lawyers' Center, official experts and family advisors of the Judiciary, as the case may be, are in charge of supervising independent lawyers and legal professionals or working in legal institutions, in terms of compliance with the laws and regulations of combating money laundering and terrorist financing.

In the Executive Regulations for Combating and Preventing Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Crimes, which was promulgated under the title of "Amendment of the Executive Regulations of Article 14 of the Addendum to the Anti-Money Laundering Law", new regulations have been formulated regarding lawyers, experts and notaries.

Among these regulations is the requirement of lawyers' associations and lawyers' center to supervise lawyers and legal professionals in terms of compliance with laws and regulations against money laundering and terrorism financing.

According to the new amendments made in the executive regulation of Article 14 of the Anti-Money Laundering Law approved by the Council of Ministers on 07/27/1404, Article 45 of this regulation has been amended and a note has been added to it.

The old text and the new text of this regulation are as follows:

The previous text of Article 45 of the Executive Regulations on Combating and Preventing Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Crimes:

Article 45- The institutions in charge of monitoring are obliged to submit a six-monthly report on the measures taken in the area under their supervision to fight money laundering and financing of terrorism to the center.  The center is obliged to review this report, evaluate the performance of this device and include the result in the report subject to paragraph (x) of the note of article (7) of the law.

The new text of Article 45 of the Executive Regulations on Combating and Preventing Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Crimes:

Article 45- The Organization of Registration of Documents and Real Estate of the country is in charge of supervising accountants and clerks, the Society of Official Accountants of Iran is in charge of supervising independent accountants and official auditors and audit institutions, bar associations and the center of lawyers, official experts and family advisers of the judiciary, as the case may be, are in charge of supervising independent lawyers and legal experts or working in legal institutions, in terms of compliance with the laws and regulations against money laundering and financing terrorism.
Note- Other examples of non-financial occupations, supervision and limits of their duties are determined by the Council if necessary and approved by the Board of Ministers.

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