Chapter 5
COMBAT AGAINST TERRORIST FINANCING
Article 33. Detection of terrorist financing, receipt and handling of reports and denunciations on terrorist financing
1. The State Bank, financial institutions, relevant organizations and individuals trading in non-financial lines and other organizations and individuals, upon detecting signs or acts of terrorist financing, must timely report them to the anti-terrorism forces defined at Point a Clause 1 Article 14 of this Law.
2. The anti-terrorism forces defined at Point a Clause 1 Article 14 of this Law shall fully receive reports and denunciations on terrorist financing, fast process the information and report them to competent authorities and competent Anti-Terrorism Steering Committees; in case of detecting that terrorist financing has happened or having grounds to assume that terrorist financing will happen, they may immediately apply the urgent anti-terrorism measures specified at Points e, i, k, l and m Clause 2 Article 30 of this Law.
Article 34. Identification of, update of customers’ information and application of temporary measures
Financial organizations, organizations and individuals trading in non-financial lines are obliged to apply measures to identify and update customers’ information; upon having doubts that customers or their transactions involve terrorist financing or customers are in the black list, they report such to the anti-terrorism force of the Ministry of Public Security and functional unit of the State Bank of Vietnam, and must apply temporary measures in accordance with law on prevention and combat of money laundering.
Article 35. Control of transporting cash, precious metals, gems and negotiable instruments across boundaries
Organizations and individuals competent to control of transporting cash, precious metals, gems and negotiable instruments across Vietnamese boundaries as prescribed in Article 24 of this Law and Article 24 of the Law on prevention and combat of money laundering shall timely detect, prevent and handle acts of misusing these activities to finance terrorists.