Ease of identification for payment of salaries to earthquake victims

According to the “Communiqué Amending the General Communiqué of the Financial Crimes Investigation Board” published in the Official Gazette of the Ministry of Finance and Finance, with the provisional article added, a state of emergency was declared in Adana, Adıyaman, Diyarbakır, Gaziantep , Hatay, Kahramanmaraş, Kilis, Malatya, In Osmaniye and Şanlıurfa, changes were made to the transaction identification practices that financial institutions must perform.

IDENTIFICATIONS MUST MATCH THE DATABASE

Provided that identification, address and contact information and signature sample are taken in the operations that financial entities must carry out within a period of one month from February 8, 2023 in said provinces, if any, the photograph of the identity document in the records of the obligor is compared with the client, and other measures are taken that are considered necessary. can be done with the document. If this is not possible, the identity information declared by the person who wants to act can be done by verifying at least four of the data required for identification through the database of the General Directorate of Population Affairs and Citizenship of the Ministry of the Interior. .

These provisions may also be applicable to people who have their domicile in said provinces and who are in other provinces due to the accident.

In a permanent commercial relationship established through identification, one month after the date of the client’s first transaction request and before the transaction is carried out, it will be mandatory to carry out the identification with the method regulated in article 6 of the “Regulation of Measures on the Prevention of Laundering of the Proceeds of Crime and Financing of Terrorism”. .

The Communiqué entered into force on February 8. AA