National Risk Assessment on Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 2021 - Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba

Abstract

In 2017 and 2019/2020, the WODC Research and Documentation Centre conducted a National Risk Assessment (NRA) in the areas of money laundering and terrorist financing for the European part of the Netherlands. In 2017/2018, the WODC conducted a separate NRA for the Caribbean Netherlands – Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (or the BES islands) – in the fields of money laundering and terrorist financing (See link). A second NRA on Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing has now been carried out for the Caribbean Netherlands, which aims to identify the greatest risks in the field of money laundering and terrorist financing. This concerns the risks with the 'greatest residual potential impact', or the impact that remains after taking into account the preventive and/or mitigating effect (the 'resilience') of the policy instruments that target these threats. To this end, the threats with the greatest potential impact have been identified, and estimates have been made of the impact that these threats may have and the resilience of the policy instruments. CONTENT: 1. Introduction 2. Research methodology 3. What makes the Carribbean Netherlands vulnerable to money laundering? 4. Insight into the largest threats in the field of money laundering 5. Resilience of the policy instruments 6. Largest money-laundering risks in de Caribbean Netherlands 7. Conclusions