What are the most important indicators of suspicion of money laundering through facilities customers accounts?

Question added by Yasser Almasri , compliance supervision officer , The International Bank for Trade & finance
Date Posted: 2014/05/29

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by prem kumar , AML/CFT GOVERNANCE , National Bank Of Pakistan

A customer uses unusual or suspicious identification documents that cannot be readily verified.
A customer provides an individual taxpayer identification number after having previously used a Social Security number.
A customer uses different taxpayer identification numbers with variations of his or her name.
A business is reluctant, when establishing a new account, to provide complete information about the nature and purpose of its business, anticipated account activity, prior banking relationships, the names of its officers and directors, or information on its business location.
A customer’s home or business telephone is disconnected.
The customer’s background differs from that which would be expected on the basis of his or her business activities.
A customer makes frequent or large transactions and has no record of past or present employment experience.
A customer is a trust, shell company, or Private Investment Company that is reluctant to provide information on controlling parties and underlying beneficiaries. Beneficial owners may hire nominee incorporation services to establish shell companies and open bank accounts for those shell companies while shielding the owner’s identity.