السرية المصرفية يبن التزام البنوك و مكافحة جرائم تبييض الأموال : دراسة مقارنة

Abstract EN

Keeping the secrets of clients is amongst the main legal obligations of banks and financial institutions; it ensures legitimate interests which cannot be dispensed of.

However this principle cannot be used as a pretext to conceal money laundering operations which mostly contribute in financing terrorism, in this way it will be an instrument menacing the security of states and their supreme interests, and hence requiring restricting such secrecy obligation or eliminating it at once.

This approach is not adopted by all states in their legislations, some of them adopt the olute secrecy which facilitates money laundering operations through their banks; therefore it is necessary to concert national and international efforts in order to reconcile between the banking secrecy obligation and the anti-money laundering obligation.