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reporting to competent authorities and should not be so construed as to
discourage or prohibit financial institutions from doing business with any
legitimate customer.
4.
In order to facilitate implementation of the measures provided for in
paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article, each State Party, where appropriate, notify
financial institutions within its jurisdiction, at the request of another State Party
or on its own initiative, of the identity of particular natural or legal persons to
whose accounts such institutions will be expected to apply enhanced scrutiny, in
addition to those whom the financial institutions may otherwise identify.
5.
Each State Party shall implement measures to ensure that its financial
institutions maintain adequate records, over an appropriate period of time, of
accounts and transactions involving the persons mentioned in paragraph 1 of
this Article, which should, as a minimum, contain information relating to the
identity of the customer as well as, as far as possible, of the beneficial owner.
6.
With a view to preventing and detecting transfers of proceeds of crimes
established in accordance with the provisions of this Convention, each
State Party shall implement appropriate and effective measures to prevent, with
the help of its regulatory and oversight bodies, the establishment of banks that
have no physical presence and that are not affiliated with a regulated financial
group. Moreover, States Parties may consider requiring their financial
institutions to refuse to enter into or continue a correspondent banking
relationship with such institutions and to guard against establishing relations
with foreign financial institutions that permit their accounts to be used by banks
that have no physical presence and that are not affiliated with a regulated
financial group.
7.
Each State Party shall consider establishing, in accordance with its
domestic legislation, effective financial disclosure systems for appropriate
persons who may reportedly be involved in the commitment of offences
provided for by the provisions of this Convention, and shall provide for