Article 72 Divulgation d’informations à la CRF

This article provides a safe harbour for obliged entities and their personnel when making disclosures to the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU).

It directly supports the reporting obligations established in Articles 69 and 70 by ensuring that good faith compliance with those obligations cannot be used against the reporting party.

In essence, it removes the legal risk that would otherwise deter entities from reporting suspicions.

Important points:

• Disclosing information to the FIU in good faith does not breach any contractual, legislative, regulatory, or administrative restriction on disclosure.
• Obliged entities, their directors, and employees face no liability of any kind for such disclosures, even if they lacked full knowledge of the underlying criminal activity.
• The protection applies regardless of whether any illegal activity actually took place.