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These refer to activities in relation to the carrying on of the business of __________________ * Annex is on file with the Secretariat and is available for consultation. 4 S/2004/661 accountant, auctioneer, estate agent, tax advisor; certain activities in relation to solicitors; activities consisting of the provision of services in relation to the purchasing of land, the provision of investment business services or investment advice; the carrying out of trustee or custodian duties for a collective business scheme; the provision of money remittance services; activities of administration companies consisting of the provision of services to collective investment schemes; activities of dealers in high value goods; and activities of operating a casino. Copies of S.I. 242 of 2003, S.I. 416 of 2003 and S.I. 3 of 2004 are available on www.justice.ie under Law Reform - Publications. (...) These bodies include solicitors, accountants, estate agents, tax advisors, dealers in high value goods, casinos, etc. Under the provisions of Section 57 of the Criminal Justice Act 1994 the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation received notification of the following STRs in respect of 2001, 2002, 2003 and to date in 2004: Year STRs 2001 3040 2002 4398 2003 4254 2004 (up to 30/07/04) 2373 The above figures cannot be interpreted in any circumstances as representing the total number of suspicious transactions as such reports are, in the first instance, based on mere suspicion by the designated reporting body.

GASTAUD (Monaco) said that social workers attempted to cope with the problems of children at an early stage, with a view to preventing more serious problems and in particular ruptures with the family. (...) Value-Added Tax (VAT) accounted for 60 per cent of the State budget, and the remainder came from corporate tax, capital tax, capital transfer tax, inheritance tax and property tax, revenue from the State-controlled telecommunications and utilities industries and revenue from casinos, which accounted for 3 per cent. The budget was balanced as a matter of principle, and the State had no debt. 44.

GE.10-63617 Subsidiary Body for Implementation Thirty-third session Cancun, 30 November to 4 December 2010 Item 6 of the provisional agenda Article 6 of the Convention Report on essential

GE.20-10445(E)  Common core document forming part of the reports of States parties Macao, China* [Date received: 20 December 2019] * The present

Articles and equipment for billiard, automatic bowling, casino games and games operated by coins or banknotes

Firms or individuals engaged in construction and real estate; 11. Casinos, lottery firms and gambling houses, including bingo parlours, horse-racing tracks and agencies of the foregoing; 12. (...) As specified in article 9, paragraph 1, of Act No. 27693 and annex No. 1 of the Regulations approved by Supreme Decree No. 163-2002-EF transactions subject to control are those carried out by regular or occasional clients in amounts of US$ 10,000.00 (ten thousand United States dollars) or more — or the equivalent in national currency — except in the case of funds transfer firms, casinos, lottery firms and gambling houses, including bingo parlours, horse-racing tracks and agencies of 10 S/AC.37/2003/(1455)/80 the foregoing, which must report transactions of US$ 2,500.00 (two thousand five hundred United States dollars) or more or the equivalent in national currency. (...) Transactions carried out at one or more offices or agencies of a reporting entity during one calendar month by or on behalf of the same person that together amount to US$ 50,000.00 (fifty thousand United States dollars) or more — or the equivalent in national currency — or, in the case of funds transfer firms, casinos, lottery firms and gambling houses, including bingo parlours, horse-racing tracks and agencies of the foregoing, to US$ 10,000.00 (ten thousand United States dollars) or more — or the equivalent in national currency — shall be reported as a single transaction.

The Gamings Act Regulation 1998 has also extended the 1994 Regulations to Casinos. Regulation 49 thereto requires the casino licensee and any employee to report to the relevant authorities any information or other matter which gives or may give rise to any knowledge or suspicion that a person in the casino is engaged in money laundering. (...) According to the 2001 Directive, Member States must ensure that the obligations laid down in Directive 91/308/EEC7 are imposed, inter alia, on the following legal or natural persons acting in the exercise of their professional activities, namely: 1. auditors, external accountants and tax advisors; 2. real estate agents; 3. notaries and other independent legal professionals, when they participate, whether: (a) by assisting in the planning or execution of transactions for their client concerning the (i) buying and selling of real property or business entities; (ii) managing of client money, securities or other assets; (iii) opening or management of bank, savings or securities accounts; (iv) organisation of contributions necessary for the creation, operation or management of companies; (v) creation, operation or management of trusts, companies or similar structures; or (b) by acting on behalf of and for their client in any financial or real estate transaction; 4. dealers in high-value goods, such as precious stones or metals, or works of art, auctioneers, whenever payment is made in cash, and in an amount of EUR15 000 or more; 5. casinos. According to Maltese Legislation and practice, what acts constitute reasonable grounds for suspicion and how are they dealt with?

Why did Governments allow the mushrooming of a huge casino above the real economies, even though it has been sufficiently clear for a long time that the casino was failing to allocate capital in an efficient way around the globe? (b) How can poorer, weaker countries that have yet to escape the poverty trap cope with the imminent global economic downturn if the very market model that has created the current crisis, and which has been promoted as the only recipe for meeting the challenges of globalization, seems increasingly irrelevant in important developed countries?