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Money Laundering Prevention - Display appointment of a (Group-) Money Laundering Officer

Geldwäscheprävention - Bestellung eines (Gruppen-) Geldwäschebeauftragten anzeigen
Official English page German-only parts machine-translated, 2026-09-15
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Requirements

• Obliged parties according to the Money Laundering Act www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gwg_2017/__2.html Natural or legal entities are legally obliged to notify a Money Laundering Reporting Officer if they act as • 1. financial enterprises • 2. bookmakers • 3. casinos • 4. operator of a betting agency are active. Only legal entities that act as a group or group mother company as a • 1. financial enterprises • 2. insurance intermediaries domiciled abroad, insofar as they maintain branches in Germany • 3. service providers for companies and for trust assets or trustees, if they provide the services specified in § 2 section 1 no. 13 GwG to third parties • 4. real estate agents • 5. bookmakers • 6. casinos • 7. operator of a betting agency • 8. commodity dealers, art brokers and art warehouse keepers, insofar as the warehousing takes place in duty-free zones are active. • Power of representation The person making the notification must be a member of the management or an internal/external (group) money laundering officer of the company. The legal counsel of the obliged person may also make the report upon presentation of the original power of attorney and designation of the subject matter. • Company based in Germany www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gwg_2017/__7.html The (group) money laundering officer and if applicable his deputy must practice their activities in Germany. • Personal reliability and qualification www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gwg_2017/__7.html The (group) money laundering officer and his deputy must prove the required personal reliability and professional qualification. • For online applications: registration/login via BundID service.berlin.de/nutzerkonten/bundid/ To submit your application online, log in with your BundID account. If you do not yet have a BundID account, please register with BundID. The basic registration with a user name and password is sufficient for this.

Documents you need

• Notification of the appointment of a (group) money laundering officer and his deputy The notification is possible in text form, please use the offered online procedure as a preferred option. • Evidence of authorisation to notify • Proof of appointment as (group) money laundering officer or • Contract on the outsourcing of internal security measures or • Evidence that the person making the report is a member of the management level of the company (e.g. extract from the commercial register or shareholders' agreement) or • If applicable, an original mandate of the representing legal counsel related to the individual case. • Evidence of qualification The future (group) money laundering officers and deputies are each required to provide: • a curriculum vitae in tabular form of their professional career and • if applicable, certificates of attendance or certificates of attended further training or comparable qualification measures. • Certificate of good conduct for presentation to an authority service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/120926/ In order to verify personal reliability, information from the Federal Central Register (certificate of good conduct) is required for submission to an authority (document type O). • The information must not be older than three months. • When applying, please state "Bestellung als Geldwäschebeauftragter nach GwG" as the purpose of use. The receiving authority for the certificate is the supervisory authority named under "Competent authorities"; you will find the current addresses there. • Excerpt from the central business register for presentation to an authority service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/327835/ In order to verify personal reliability, information from the Central Commercial Register is required for submission to an authority (document type 9). • The information must not be older than three months. • When applying, please state "Bestellung Geldwäschebeauftragter nach GwG" as the purpose of use. The receiving authority for the certificate is the supervisory authority named under "Competent authorities"; you will find the current addresses there. • Up to date excerpt from the Trade Register, if applicable www.handelsregister.de/ Registered companies please submit a current excerpt from the commercial register. Legal entities in the process of formation (GmbH, AG) please submit the company agreement or articles of association.

Fees

none

Legal basis

• Geldwäschegesetz (GwG, Money Laundering Act) § 7 para. 1 sentence 1 & para. 4 sentence 1 www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gwg_2017/__7.html • Geldwäschegesetz (GwG, Money Laundering Act) § 9 para. 1 sentence 2 no. 2 www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gwg_2017/__9.html

Further information

• Information about prevention of money laundering by the Senate Department for Economics www.berlin.de/sen/wirtschaft/wirtschaftsrecht/geldwaesche/ar • Casinos: Gambling Supervision at the Senate Department of the Interior www.berlin.de/sen/inneres/buerger-und-staat/weitere-themen/g • Basic Information Money Laundering Act for Obligated Persons in the Gambling Sector of the LABO www.berlin.de/labo/_assets/buergerdienste/20190311-basisinfo • Notes on the interpretation and application of the Money Laundering Act (AMLA) www.berlin.de/labo/_assets/buergerdienste/20190204_aua-gwg-g • First National Risk Analysis www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/DE/Downloads/Broschue • Central Office for Financial Transaction Investigations (FIU) www.zoll.de/DE/FIU/fiu_node.html

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Service number 328299 · same path as the original: service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/328299/