In New Zealand 66% of economic crimes are involves by the person inside business or organization, which is a typical perpetrator in NZ. This survey indicates common reasons for the economic crimes being committed, unsurprisingly financial gain. In New Zealand only 36% of organizations didn't reported incidents of economic crimes to appropriate enforcement agencies indicating inconsistent approach.
Even surprisingly only 70% incidents were reported to organization's board, executive management and audit committees.
Money laundering
Respondents about 8% say that they have suffered from the incident of laundering of money in last 2 year, which is twice high globally and more than double resulted for Asian pacific Region. Respondent about one-quarter believe that they will be subjected to the money laundering within next two years.
Anti money laundering updated legislation, which is due to enacted in New Zealand before end of 2008. These changes will change fundamentally scope of existing rules to the cover money and will place heavy potential cost and compliance cost on reporting entities. There will need a good understanding of money laundering that how launders operate money, customer risk profile, their product and introduction of processes to ensure their risk assessment is kept current. |