AML/CFT Red Flags – Non Profit Organizations

AML/CFT Red Flags – Non Profit Organizations

• NPO treasurer or employee withdraws cash from the NPO account and then deposits it into a personal account, before diverting the funds to a suspected terrorist’s account.
• Media reports the NPO is linked to known terrorist organisations or entities that are engaged, or suspected to be involved, in terrorist activities.
• Parties to the transaction (for example: account owner, sender, beneficiary or recipient) are from countries known to support terrorist activities and organisations.
• Funds sent from large international NPOs based in high-risk countries, to their branches in regional countries, are channelled to local NPOs based or operating in domestic conflict areas.
• An NPO sending funds to multiple entities (individuals and companies) in a high-risk country.
• NPO raises funds from a major public event and then authorises a third party to be a signatory to the NPO account, who uses it to send funds to high-risk countries.
• Unusual or atypical large cash withdrawals, particularly after the financial institution refuses to wire NPO funds overseas (thus raising cross-border cash smuggling suspicions).
• Transactions, including international and domestic transfers, with NPOs that contain terms associated with violent extremism and other terrorist ideologies
• Vague justifications and a lack of documentation when the financial institution questions NPO requests to transfer funds to high-risk locations or entities.
• Use of NPO accounts to accept funds from suspected terrorists and their associates (based on law enforcement agency alerts on persons of interest).
• Transactions (cash and transfers) involving key personnel of foreign NPOs associated with United Nations Security Council designated terrorist entities.
• NPO transactions for which there does not appear to be a logical economic purpose or link between the NPO’s stated activities and the other parties in the transaction.
• NPO uses crowd funding and social media to solicit donations, then its online presence vanishes or shuts down.
• NPO’s account shows signs of unexplained increases in deposits and transaction activity.
• NPO is unable to account for the final use of all its funds/resources.
• NPO uses unnecessarily complex banking arrangements or financial networks for its operations, particularly overseas.
• NPO, or NPO representatives, use falsified or conflicting documentation.
• Inconsistencies between the pattern or size of financial transactions and the stated purpose and activity of the organisation.
• Unexpected absence of contributions from donors located in the country.
• Large outgoing transactions to the country of origin of NPO directors who are foreign nationals, particularly if the country is high risk.
• NPO appears to have few or no staff and limited or no physical presence, which is at odds with its stated purpose and scale of financial activity.
• NPO funds commingled with personal/private or business funds.

Non-Profit Organisations – AML/CFT Red Flags

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