Tag Archives: estate agent

Piggy’s Progress

Posted on January 13, 2021 by Susan Grossey author

At the end of each year I do a stock-take of my piggy sales – by which I mean, I add up how many copies of I have sold of my two suites of AML books for non-exec directors (i.e. … Continue reading →

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Launderer seeks splendour without diminishment

Posted on May 15, 2019 by Susan Grossey author

It cannot have escaped your notice that Canada is in a lather about its real estate sector being used for money laundering.  Stories are appearing seemingly every day about some new scheme or other that has been uncovered, thanks in … Continue reading →

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A stain on the ivory towers

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Susan Grossey author

Money laundering through the property sector in the UK is not a new story – goodness, if you live in London and you don’t have at least three dodgy foreign PEPs in your local Neighbourhood Watch scheme, you’ll be feeling … Continue reading →

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Cleaning house for estate agents

Posted on January 26, 2018 by Susan Grossey author

Just to raise the tone of this blog a little, I’d like to start today with a quotation from Voltaire’s 1759 satirical novel “Candide”: “Dans ce pays-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les … Continue reading →

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You can lead a horse to water

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Susan Grossey author

As you know, at the end of June we were gifted with new AML legislation here in the UK.  One of its main features was an absolute clarification about the AML status of estate agents: “In these Regulations, ‘estate agent’ … Continue reading →

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The deals from the bus

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Susan Grossey author

I have been away for a week in rural Suffolk; we stayed in a house built in 1460, and the whole county lives in about 1950, so we had no phone reception, no Internet access and therefore *gasp* no way … Continue reading →

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Getting in a state about agents

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Susan Grossey author

When it comes to AML, I’m an equal opportunities preacher: I’ll tell anyone what to do.  So I take my AML hectoring, sorry, training into all manner of places, from swanky banks to glitzy casinos.  But the two parts of … Continue reading →

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Agents of doom and disrepute

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Susan Grossey author

I’ve just watched a Channel 4 documentary called “From Russia with Cash”.  The premise is that two investigators go undercover as Russian PEP Boris and his ditsy girlfriend Nastya, and trip around the swankier parts of London looking at five … Continue reading →

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Without AML, you’re nothing

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Susan Grossey author

A kind reader in Ireland has pointed out to me this recent case (I’m sure you’re all on top of it, but what with the dizzy promise of Easter eggs this weekend, it quite escaped my notice).  At the heart … Continue reading →

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Passing the AML parcel

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Susan Grossey author

We’re not quite as bad as America, but in the UK we do have a fairly fragmented approach to AML supervision – as soon as I feel a flowchart coming on, as I do when people ask me just who … Continue reading →

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