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Combating the financing of child pornography

In order to combat the financing of Internet-based child pornography, Article 19 of Law 38/2006 provides for the issue of a regulation defining the procedures for the confidential transmission of information between the FIU, the National Centre established at the Ministry of the Interior and the financial system.

In this field the FIU is assigned to receive information from banks, post offices and financial intermediaries providing payment services, on relationships and transactions ascribable to persons involved in marketing child pornography, and to transmit the information acquired to the Centre at the Ministry of the Interior.

The FIU is also required to verify, together with the other competent units of the Bank of Italy, compliance with the relevant provisions in force by banks, electronic money institutions, Poste Italiane S.p.A. and financial intermediaries providing payment services, and to report violations to the Ministry for the Economy and Finance for the imposition of sanctions.