THE LEGAL MEASURES OF INVESTIGATION ON MONEY-LAUNDERING CASES
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About Thailand’s investigation legal measures of money-laundering cases at present, Although Thailand have the investigation procedure which legislate on Anti-Money Laundering Act B.E. 2542, however such law enforcement result don’t go to the criminal procedure and the judgment which sentence the defendants in money-laundering offence at last. So such legal measures don’t accomplish as expected. Therefore Thailand must prescribe the measures and the methods of anti-money laundering law enforcement, to go the criminal procedure about money-laundering offence and accord with the international standard on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Combating the Financial of Terrorism (CFT).
In this way, the researcher study and compare with Thailand’s legal measures, international standard of United Nations (UN) and Financial Action Task Force (FATF), along with legal measures of the Word Bank and US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in Criminal Investigation Division.
From the study, it was found that Thailand must prescribe the investigation legal measures of money-laundering cases as follows: (1) to protect each testifying person or informant; (2) to seek for the evidences; (3) to arrest a person who committed a money laundering offense and record the person’s statement as preliminary evidence; (4) to have access to the financial information; (5) to undercover; (6) to have controlled delivery; (7) to have surveillance; (8) to have trash runs; (9) to have methods of proving income; (10) to use forensic science; (11) to collect, analyze and present the evidences.
The enactment of such legal measures should be a part of money-laundering law and what the law ought to be. These laws could help to decrease many problems of money-laundering criminal investigation and increase the judgments to sentence many defendants in the money-laundering offence. The researcher suggest to have the criminal investigators of money-laundering cases and set up the criminal investigation division in Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO).
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