Notification of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Financial Monitoring for jewelers, accounting organizations, realtors, lawyers

The Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Financial Monitoring (hereinafter referred to as AFM), within the framework of state control, carries out verification activities to comply with legislation in the field of combating the legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime and the financing of terrorism in relation to subjects of financial monitoring, namely:

accounting organizations and professional accountants engaged in business activities;

legal consultants and other independent legal experts;

individual entrepreneurs and legal entities carrying out leasing activities as a lessor without a license;

persons carrying out transactions with jewelry;

persons providing intermediary services in transactions of purchase and sale of real estate.

In accordance with paragraph 2 of Article 17 of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On Permits and Notifications”, the above entities are required to submit a notification of the start of activities (with the exception of accounting organizations and professional accountants engaged in business activities) on the websiteelicense.kz.

At the same time, all of the above entities, without exception, must register on the AFM websitehttps://websfm.kz/

In order to avoid the application of penalties for failure to comply with these legal requirements (Articles 214, 462, 463 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Kazakhstan), we inform you of the need to urgently submit a notification and undergo registration.

For any questions please contact:

Accounting, jewelry organizations - Manaspaev Omurzak Bolatovich, tel: 8 700-0000-922;

Realtors, Lessors - Kazhibaev Darkhan Ongarovich, tel: 8 747-222-18-66;

Legal consultants and other independent legal professionals– Akhmetov Kuanysh Nairullaevich, tel: 8 701-925-77-53.