Good Morning.
I have a Money Laundering query......sigh......
If, as many people do now days, you wanted to run your bookkeeping practice entirely online, with no physical client contact, allowing you to gain clients from all over the country....how do you comply with the Money Laundering Regulations? Are the following options acceptable:
- Ask your new client to post thier passport to you so that you can copy it and post it back (most likely to scare off potential clients).
- Have them to copy/scan it and then email the copy to you.
- Ask them for permission to contact their accountant or solictor and ask for them to send copies of the verification documentation they hold with a legal blurb about it being a true likeness of the individual.
- Any other option available?
Obviously at the moment I'm in the process of completing my exams and looking to set up on my own, so this is all forward thinking, but its obviously a subject that could seriously hinder the whole 'purely online' business aspect.
Many thanks.
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