In April 2021 the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Act 2021 entered into force.
One of the changes introduced was the inclusion of high value art traders and high value art intermediaries as a category of designated persons under the Act.
These new changes mean Irish art auction houses and galleries must implement strict internal policies, controls and to prevent and detect money laundering (ML) and terrorism financing (TF).
Verifying the identity and address of potential customers will allow businesses to know their customer and to onboard genuine clients while preventing fraud at source.
One auction house strengthening their robust AML process to comply with the new ML/TF changes in the high value art space is deVeres.