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. The Ministry of Finance is responsible for the service, and it is maintained by the Ministry of Fi-nance, the Ministry of the Interior, the Finnish Bar Association, the Border Guard, Finnish Customs, the Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland, the Financial Supervisory Authori-ty, the Tax Administration, the Finnish Patent and Registration Office, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

Obliged entities Companies and professionals who can identify risks related to money laundering or terrorist financing or be expected to be exploited for these purposes are key to the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing. Such in...

Terrorist financing Terrorist financing means the provision or collection of funds, directly or indirectly, to commit a terrorist offence. Financing or attempting to finance a terrorist group or an individual terrorist is punishable. Financing of ...

Some entities have a reporting obligation by virtue of the Anti-Money Laundering Act. When you carry out a transaction with such an entity, you may have to prove your identity. This way, the obliged entity can ensure it knows the person it is interacting with. This is known as customer due diligence. The obliged entities, such as banks, follow statutory procedures for customer due diligence and monitor their customer relationships in order to detect suspicious business activities.

The regulations that seek to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing consist of national legislation and European and international regulations.

Accessibility statement for the website moneylaundering.fi This statement is about the Ministry of Finance website vm.fi. The website is subject to the requirements of the Act on the Provision of Digital Services. Under the Act, public online serv...

Frequently asked questions – Prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing We have compiled a list of questions and answers concerning the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing. If you can’t find the answer you are lookin...

The Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland supervises compliance with the Act on Preventing Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (444/2017) on a national basis. One of the Regional State Administrative Agency’s supervisory tools to step up supervision of the Act on Preventing Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Money Laundering Act) is the money laundering supervision register.

Although the Anti-Money Laundering Act does not directly apply to non-profit organisations, you need to comprehensively respond to customer due diligence questions.

Contact information This page contains links to contact details that may be useful if you need more information on the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing Do you suspect money laundering? If you are an obliged entity, you must i...

The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of the Interior are the ministries responsible for the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing. Other key ministries involved in this work are the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health.

19.12.2024 | Action Plan for Tackling the Grey Economy and Economic Crime 2024–2027 Action Plan 2024–2027 On 17 May 2024, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment issued a deci- sion to set up a preparatory group for updating the Strategy and Action Pla...

10.10.2024 | The Ministry of the Interior is requesting comments on a draft proposal for amending the Act on the Bank and Payment Account Monitoring System. The consultation round ends on 21 November 2024.

21.5.2024 | In 2020–2023, more than 50 projects tackling the shadow economy and economic crime were carried out in Finland. They succeeded in preventing abuses, promoting healthy competition between companies and supporting a fair labour market by improving the transparency and openness of business activities, for example.

8.2.2024 | Unofficial international money remittances involve a very high risk of money laundering and terrorist financing. In addition, public authorities responsible for anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism and other key actors consider the risk to be high for virtual currency providers, banks and payment service providers.

7.6.2024 | 28 May 2024 Kirkkokatu 12, Helsinki 1 PO Box 26, FI-00023 Government, Finland Switchboard +358 295 480 171 | [email protected] | www.intermin.fi Classification of the Finnish NPO sector In the National Risk Assessment of Money Laundering and Terr...

19.12.2024 | GOVERNMENT RESOLUTION ON A STRATEGY FOR TACKLING THE GREY ECONOMY AND ECONOMIC CRIME FOR 2024–2027 Executive summary In May 2024, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment set up a preparatory group to update the Strategy and Action Plan for...

2.1.2024 | Entities obliged to carry out customer due diligence under the Act on Preventing Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing would have better access to information on politically exposed persons if the information were processed using a centralised national information system. The Ministry of Finance is requesting comments on its assessment of the matter.

All companies Most companies must file the details on their actual beneficial owners and keep the details up to date. Beneficial owners are the persons who have ownership interest or control in the company. You can file your notification with the ...

National cooperation Public authorities and other parties work together to prevent money laundering and the financing of terrorism. National group for inter-authority cooperation on money laundering and terrorist financing The inter-authority coop...