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Anti-money laundering regulation and the art market

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Saskia Hufnagel  and
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Saskia Hufnagel
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Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK
Colin King*
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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, London, UK.
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Abstract

Following concerns that the art market is being used to launder criminal money and fund terrorist activities, measures have recently been introduced to subject the market to the anti-money laundering (AML) regime – such as the EU 5th Money Laundering Directive (2018) and the US Illicit Art and Antiquities Trafficking Prevention Bill (2018). The expansion of the AML regime to include art dealers has been attributed to the failure of regulation and the vulnerabilities inherent in the market to laundering. This paper considers vulnerabilities to money laundering and examines the types of regulation that apply in the art market. The paper then goes on to analyse the application of AML criminal law and preventive measures in the UK context, demonstrating that art dealers can be criminally prosecuted for engaging in normal commercial activities. Even if dealers do comply with AML reporting rules, such compliance can significantly impact upon their business. These are important considerations given the government's emphasis on striking a balance between the burdens on business and deterring money laundering activities. Drawing upon the AGILE analytical framework, we remain sceptical about the continued expansion of the AML regime.

Keywords

art crimeart marketmoney launderingregulationMoney Laundering Regulations 20175th Money Laundering DirectiveIllicit Art and Antiquities Trafficking Prevention Bill
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Legal Studies , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , March 2020 , pp. 131 - 150
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Copyright © The Society of Legal Scholars 2019

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We would like to thank Peter Alldridge, Janet Ulph and Mark Walters for their helpful comments on a previous draft.

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99 HM Treasury, above note 11, p 4.

100 Ibid.

101 Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (Commencement No 4, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2003, SI 2003/120.

102 POCA 2002, s 340(3). It is immaterial who carried out the conduct; who benefited from it; and whether the conduct occurred before or after the passing of POCA: POCA 2002, s 340(4).

103 Sutherland Williams et al, above note 67, para 21.01.

104 POCA 2002, s 330.

105 POCA 2002, s 331.

106 POCA 2002, s 332.

107 POCA 2002, s 333A.

108 Ulph and Smith, above n 20, p 105.

109 The dealer would have to know or suspect that that money constitutes or represents benefit from criminal conduct: POCA 2002, s 340(3)(b).

110 See the allegations in the Personnages 1965 indictment: US v Kyriacou and others, Indictment No CR 18 0102, 28 February 2018 (Eastern District of New York).

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112 POCA 2002, s 338. Note that where an authorised disclosure is made in good faith, no civil liability arises: Serious Crime Act 2015, s 37 inserting a new sub-s (4A) into POCA 2002, s 338.

113 This defence applies to each of the principal money laundering offences. See, respectively, POCA 2002, s 327(2), s 328(2) and s 329(2).

114 POCA 2002, s 333A. See also Jayesh Shah and Shaleetha Mahabeer v HSBC Private Bank (UK) Ltd [2012] EWHC 1283 (QB).

115 ‘Appropriate consent’ is defined in POCA 2002, s 335.

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118 POCA 2002, s 335. The ‘notice period’ is seven working days: POCA 2002, s 335(5).

119 POCA 2002, s 336(8). There is provision for the 31-day moratorium period to be extended: Criminal Finances Act 2017, s 10.

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125 Ibid, p 30. It was stated that: ‘there is currently no means of ensuring that the burden of reporting is proportionate to the gravity of the offence, the value of the criminal property and the benefit to law enforcement agencies of this intelligence. This is problematic as resources are finite. The burden on those who are obliged to file reports is substantial. The burden on those whose accounts and transactions are frozen pending review is also very significant. It undermines the aim of achieving a truly risk-based approach’ (p 30).

126 Significantly, too, a ‘SARs Reform Programme’ is underway, led by the Home Office: National Crime Agency Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) Annual Report 2018 p 2 (‘Statement by the Chair of the SARs Regime Committee’).

127 SI 2017/692.

128 HM Treasury and Home Office National Risk Assessment of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 2017 (October 2017) para 1.8.

129 Council Directive 91/308/EEC of 10 June 1991.

130 Reg 14(1)(a) defines ‘high value dealer’ as ‘a firm or sole trader who by way of business trades in goods (including an auctioneer dealing in goods), when the trader makes or receives, in respect of any transaction, a payment or payments in cash of at least 10,000 euros in total, whether the transaction is executed in a single operation or in several operations which appear to be linked’ (emphasis added).

131 Transparency International UK, above n 18, pp 60–62.

132 For example, Damien Hirst's piece For the Love of God supposedly sold for £50m in cash. In that type of situation, the dealer would fall within the definition of ‘high value dealer’. See ‘The mystery of the £50m skull: Is Hirst's record sale all it seems?’ (The Independent, 2 September 2007).

133 While some larger firms already have AML programmes in place, this appears to be the exception in the market as a whole. See also Basel Institute on Governance Basel Art Trade Anti-Money Laundering Principles (January 2018).

134 Risk factors include: its customers; countries/ geographic areas that it operates in; its products or services; its transactions; its delivery channels.

135 The obligation extends to any ‘parent undertaking’: reg 20.

136 In effect, those with convictions of a relevant offence can be precluded from acting in such a role, or if they are later convicted of a relevant offence, they can be precluded subsequent to that conviction. The relevant offences are set out in the ML Regulations 2017, Sch 3.

137 The relevant CDD checks are set out in reg 28. CDD checks must be done before the establishment of a business relationship or the carrying out of the transaction: reg 30.

138 Reg 35 further requires ‘appropriate risk-management systems and procedures’ to be put in place to determine whether a person is, or is associated with, a PEP.

139 NCA, above n 48, p 38.

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144 Such KYCC could operate both ways – ie dealers might do KYCC themselves to manage risk or they might be requested by other firms (eg other dealers or banks or solicitors, etc) to provide further information about their own clients.

145 The 2018 FATF Evaluation rated the UK money laundering investigation and prosecution provisions as having ‘a substantial level of effectiveness’: FATF United Kingdom: Mutual Evaluation Report (December 2018) p 71.

146 The 2018 FATF Evaluation rated the UK preventive provisions as having ‘a moderate level of effectiveness’: FATF, above note 145, p 122.

147 La Vigne, above n 22.

148 La Vigne, above n 22, at 204.

149 ‘Europe needs a central anti-money laundering body’ (Financial Times, 4 September 2018).

150 T Keatinge ‘We cannot fight cross-border money laundering with local tools’ (Financial Times, 9 September 2018).

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154 Alldridge, above n 23. For discussion of ‘implementation failure’ see Grabosky, above note 76, at 359–360.

155 In an EU-wide study, involving interviews with policy-makers, practitioners, and prosecutors, Ferwerda notes how there were a range of answers to the question: ‘what is the goal of AML policy?’ See J Ferwerda ‘The effectiveness of anti-money laundering policy: a cost-benefit perspective’ in King et al, above n 46.

156 La Vigne, above n 22, at 207.

157 Verhage, above n 16, pp 65–66.

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159 There continue to be AML failures across different sectors, for example: FCA – Press Release, ‘FCA fines Standard Chartered Bank £102.2 million for poor AML controls’ (9 April 2019); BBC News ‘Countrywide fined £215,000 over money-laundering failings’ (4 March 2019); Gambling Commission ‘Daub Alderney to pay £7.1m fine for anti-money laundering and social responsibility failures’ (13 November 2018); ‘Europe's biggest banks fined for money laundering’ (The Week, 10 October 2018); J Garside and N Hopkins ‘UK lawyers failing to report suspected money laundering, says watchdog’ (The Guardian, 14 September 2018). Notwithstanding the positive report from the FATF (above n 145), it has been argued ‘that ‘“effectiveness” in fulfilling FATF's IOs [ie Immediate Outcomes] in aggregate does not necessarily translate into real-world effectiveness in achieving the overarching objectives of an AML regime’: Keatinge, T et al. No Rest for the Wicked: Driving Change in the UK's Post-FATF Evaluation AML Regime (RUSI, 2019) pp 12–13Google Scholar.

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166 See Dahabshiil Transfer Services Ltd v Barclays Bank plc [2013] EWHC 3379 (Ch).

167 See generally Ramachandran et al, above n 143.

168 See S Kamali Dehghan ‘UK bank accounts of Iranian customers still being closed, says law firm’ (The Guardian, 21 April 2017).

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184 Such as the UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property 1970.

185 Charney, above note 32.