Le 19 décembre 2025 entre en vigueur la loi du 12 décembre 2025 portant mod…
With the adoption of a regulation to facilitate the transfer of criminal pr…
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On 21 May 2024, a bill of law n° 8387 was introduced before the Luxembourg Parliament. Its objective is to amend several pieces of Luxembourg legislat…
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After years of negotiations, the EU Parliament has finally adopted the long-awaited EU regulation on the prevention of the use of the financial system…
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In response to identified weaknesses within the existing anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) framework of the Eu…
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Following the on-site visit for mutual evaluation of Luxembourg made by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) from 2 November 2022 to 18 November 202…
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The european banking authority published a report on money laundering and terrorist financing risks associated with eu payment institutions. the repor…
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On 19 April 2023, the EU Parliament announced the approval of its negotiating mandate for three of the four proposed pillars of the much-anticipated n…
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From 7 April 2023, the penalties for crimes committed with discriminatory intent will double.
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30 years ago, with the law of 21 July 1992, Luxembourg criminal law was enhanced with a new offence targeting company directors: misuse of corpo…
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On 20 December 2021, the law of 17 December 2021 (the “Law”) was published in the Official Journal of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
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The Luxembourg Parliament has adopted a law of 25 February 2021 (the “Law”) which notably amends the law of 12 November 2004 on the fight against mone…
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Les entreprises assujetties à la loi du 12 novembre 2004 relative à la lutte contre le blanchiment et le financement du terrorisme, ont été au fil du …
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By a Law of 1 August 2018 ("Law"), Luxembourg transposed into national law Directive 2014/41/EU on the European Investigation Order in crimi…
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Since the Napoleonic era the procedure in correctional matters has been governed by theCode d’instruction criminelle. Under the influence of the Europ…
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The Luxembourg law of 23 December 2016 on the 2017 tax reform (the TRL) extends the money laundering predicate offence to aggravated tax fraud (f…
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Le “paquet fiscal” que vient de dévoiler le gouvernement comprend d’abord la création d’une nouvelle infraction fiscale : la fraude fiscale aggravée.
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Considering the increase in terrorist attacks, the legislator has decided to strengthen Luxembourg’s criminal procedure by introducing draft law N° 69…
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The Minister for Justice has proposed a new draft law No 6887, dated October 7th 2015 (the “Draft Law”) to insert a new paragraph 6 to Article 3 of th…
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Having been published on 5 June 2015, the latest anti-money laundering Directive (EU) 2015/849 (“AMLD IV”), which shall be transposed into n…
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The first criminal case on the basis of the newly adopted plea bargaining procedure in Luxembourg called « judgment upon consent » has been settled by…
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