“Anti -money laundering is a topic of extreme topicality, especially from a criminal point of view of bank offenses, but it is even more so in this land of Calabria in which we find ourselves operating. It is useless to hide that a river of illicit money arrives in Gioia Tauro: The economic-financial maneuvers of a country land at the port, with what is the value of drugs. The problem is that, apart from those who seize that there are many, often we cannot see that Fina makes the huge quantity that we cannot seize, even if we know that the proceeds are used in commercial activities by bringing enormous damage to the legal economy “.
This is what highlighted by Emanuele Crescenti, head of the Public Prosecutor of Palmiduring the training event organized by the Order of Accountants and Accounting Experts (OdCec) of Palmi, chaired by Luciano Fedelefrom the theme “The active collaboration of accountants in the fight against money laundering: the news of the technical rules”, held on Monday afternoon at the headquarters in via Mascagni. Crescenti spoke of “important challenge of the State who, among other things, – he added – had a crucial passage with the introduction of the legislation on recycling car, which can only be won if you team up, collaborating and working together” institutions, law enforcement, citizens and professionals. In Palmi – he continued by citing Falcone’s “Follow The Money” method – I worried about taking care of the appearance of economic, tax and commercial crimes by creating a specialized group of magistrates and having extraordinary attention from the GDF. I know I have a professional category as a teammates who wants not only to say but also to show that he wants to be on the right side – he remarked by contacting the accountants present in the room – therefore, I ask you to support the controls of the GDF, knowing that they are useful and represent the charges that are accompanied by the honors of those who are part of a winning category, and to continue in that collaboration with the authorities also knowing that the doors of the prosecutor are always open and have a precise referee “.
The works were opened by the institutional greetings of the President of the Odcec, Luciano Fedele who illustrated the purposes of the seminary, namely those of analyzing the functions and obligations that professionals must perform to combat money laundering from illegal activities: “The legislator – he explained – has expanded the involvement of the professional categories by implicitly recognizing the centrality of the role of accountants whose technical rules are based on a principle. mandatory: active collaboration and professionalism, to allow the state to counter money recycling. Following, the intervention of the new vice -president of the National Council of Chartered Accountants and Accounting Experts, Antonio Repaci: “If we want to defeat the bad economy – he made his debut – we must work better together and be part of a single team. The technical rules were written to help us understand, to highlight, to report what could come out of certain standards. As a national council – we continued – of the Board of Statutory Auditors about the behavior that mayors must have for listed and unlisted companies, so that there is clarity, and we sent them to all the prosecutors of Italy “. Repaci then cited the approval of the reform of art. 2407 of the Civil Code in the Senate on the responsibilities of the mayors in economic terms but also with the limit of responsibility for the prescription: “It is a rule that the category hoped to obtain but that had never been able to have. Now has made its definitive path by registering the unanimity and the merit of this change is of the whole Council and its President De Nuccio who managed to make the parliamentarians and the group leaders understand the relevance. He will have to work on the extension of this rule to the auditors “. On a purely technical level, it then moved on to the dissertations of the various speakers. The delegated councilor of the CNDCEC anti -money laundering area, Gabriella Viggiano dealt with the topic “The work of the Commission and the process of issuing the technical rules”. The reports of Annalisa De Vivo, accountant and legal auditor of the accounts, expert in the legislation and anti -moneyger procedures for professionals, with an intervention entitled “The main innovations introduced by the technical rules of the CNDCECC, operating procedures and Question Time, followed. The adequate verification of customers and document conservation. Procedures and obligations in support of the accountants”, and of Annunziata Ascone, head of the Government area. Operational – BCC BCC Calabria branches, which has faced the aspects related to “AML controls in the bank: the role of the accountant in the Banca – Impresa Report”. The event, organized with the collaboration of BCC Calabria further, is being accredited to the National Council and has been valid for the achievement of four professional training credits in compulsory subjects for the purposes of continuous professional training for members of order.