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Prevention and countering of money laundering and terrorism financing

The Bank of Italy and the other financial sector supervisory authorities monitor compliance with the obligations established by Legislative Decree 231/2007.

The decree transposed Directive 2005/60/EC (only in Italian - also known as the Third Anti-Money-Laundering Directive), which reorganized the powers and tasks of the various institutions involved in preventing and countering money laundering and the financing of terrorism.

The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), set up at the Bank of Italy, is entrusted, on a centralized basis, with the tasks regarding reports of suspicious transactions.

The Bank of Italy cooperates in countering the financial flows that support the development of (nuclear, chemical and bacteriological) weapons of mass destruction.