Ukraine’s efforts against money laundering since the Russian invasion in February 2022

Abstract

The shifting environment of money laundering, exacerbated due to the war, calls for scrutiny of Ukraine's reaction to this fundamental challenge. This paper thus helps widen the knowledge about how Ukraine is trying to fight against money laundering and protect financial system integrity by shedding light on legislative transformations and their results in a much more complex geopolitical setting. Therefore, it provides an overview about the main elements of Ukrainian anti- money laundering policy and an analysis of reforms passed in this sphere of law since the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine 2022. It focuses on the main changes of legislature in terms of anti-money laundering and terrorism financing prevention as well as first identifiable results of the new legislatorial and executive changes.

Keywords

• anti-money laundering
• compliance
• russian invasion
• money laundering prevention
• terrorism financing
• financial intelligence
• law