The commission of inquiry alerts a “neglected phenomenon” and “facilitated by a lack of coordination” of the public authorities

In its report, rendered on Friday June 20 and consulted by Franceinfo, and entitled “These billions which plague France”, the commission of inquiry on financial delinquency on “The reality of a phenomenon too little known and neglected by the public authorities” AND “Easy by the lack of coordination of wrestling instruments”. “The account is not there” in the fight against money laundering, this “Crime that allows everyone else”, Cons up the chairman of the commission of inquiry Raphaël Daubet (Senator Rdse du Lot) and the rapporteur, Nathalie Goulet (Senator UC de l’Orne). They call for a change of approach to get out of a logic of “Silos” In order to understand “The entire criminal phenomenon”.

According to the report, there is no precise evaluation of the whitewashed amounts in France, but according to the methodology used by the United Nations Office against Drugs and Crime (ONUDC), it can be estimated that money laundering represents “Between 2% and 5% of world GDP, or 1,600 to 4,000 billion dollars”. Reported to French GDP, this represents “An order of magnitude of at least 58 billion euros”. In addition, the commission recalls that “Almost 90% of bleached amounts are not entered”.
The report draws up the methods used by criminals to whiten assets, which juggle between legal and criminal devices. They use methods that go from “Affairs of winning lottery tickets” has “Aid and public procurement” and the exploitation of legislative flaws as “The absence of fund control in the resumption of small businesses” or the use of “Ephemeral societies”. The authors also point to the use of “Cryptoactive” and “encrypted messaging”.

The main problem identified by the report is “The absence of a coherent strategy in the fight”, with certain devices that are “underused”and others who are missing “maturity”. On the ground, the fight against money laundering is perceived as “technical and tedious”, She suffers from a “Lack of attractiveness” with investigators, especially since working conditions are cited as a “Major demotivation factor” because of “Obsolete software, badly adapted to the complexity of files and which lack interoperability, slowing down the possibilities of overlap”.
Among the recommendations, senators recommend “Better regulate cryptoactives”, “To anticipate the transposition of the future European directive establishing a file of the bank accounts of the cryptoactives”of “Systematic make the verification of the origin of the funds before the resumption of a business”, of “Strengthen the regulations applicable to the profession of domiciliatory”,, “To integrate the presumption of money laundering into the investigation strategy for all police or customs procedures”,, “To ensure the interoperability of the databases without delay”, or “Create at the national level an inter -ministerial structure of survey specializing in financial matters”.