COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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●● How many types of Sanctions evasion?
Answer: Evasion can happen in two ways. External evasion & Internal
External evasion happens when the customer or its third party violates
sanctions.
Internal evasion happens when an organization's own staff members
commit a violation, such as stripping.
●● What is Stripping?
Answer: Stripping is the intentional removal or modification of
information from a record, either by a customer or by an organization's
staff, to avoid detection against a sanctions list.
●● What is External Stripping?
Answer: External stripping happens when a party outside the
organization removes information from incoming payment messages.
This removal is a deliberate attempt to hide the identity of the sender,
recipient, or jurisdiction from where a payment originated.
●● What is U-turn payments?
, Answer: Stripping is associated with U-turn payments. A U-turn is a
transaction performed by a bank in one country for the benefit of a bank
in another country. A bank or other institution from country "A" sends a
transaction through a bank in country "B" using an offshore bank.
●● Which Sanctions are most often associated with U-turn payments?
Answer: By using a U-turn payment, it is possible for sanctions evaders
to defy the following:
• Targeted sanctions against specific countries
• Inclusion of various entities on the Specially Designated Nationals
(SDN) list in an effort to prevent terrorism
• Individuals named as SDNs.
●● How U-turn payments evade the sanction targets?
Answer: The evader simply removes the relevant information from the
payment message or wire.
●● What is the motivation behind striping?
Answer: Other cases are not based on patriotism, solidarity, or political
beliefs. In these cases, a person or entity may offer a bribe to persuade
the bank employee to alter or omit the relevant information. In some
cases, the bribe and the bank employee's personal beliefs may both play
a role.
●● What is the causes of the noncompliance?