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Viewing cable 07BANGKOK6254, Prospects for Future USG Assistance to the Thai Anti-Money

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07BANGKOK6254 2007-12-26 07:31 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Bangkok
VZCZCXRO9269
RR RUEHCHI RUEHDT RUEHHM RUEHNH
DE RUEHBK #6254/01 3600731
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 260731Z DEC 07
FM AMEMBASSY BANGKOK
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 1213
RUEAWJA/DEPT OF JUSTICE WASHDC
RUEATRS/DEPT OF TREASURY WASHINGTON DC
RUCNASE/ASEAN MEMBER COLLECTIVE
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 BANGKOK 006254 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR INL/AAE,SCT,EEB AND EAP/RSP 
JUSTICE FOR AFMLS, OIA, AND OPDAT 
TREASURY FOR FINCEN 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PTER KCRM SNAR TH
SUBJECT: Prospects for Future USG Assistance to the Thai Anti-Money 
Laundering Office 
 
Ref:  State 05603 
 
1. (SBU) SUMMARY:  Visiting USDOJ Official Linda Samuel accompanied 
by Embassy Bangkok officers called on senior Thai Anti-Money 
Laundering Office officials and held a productive discussion of 
possible new USG-RTG cooperation and capacity building assistance. 
The visit responded to a recent RTG decision, after 3 years of USG 
urging, to abolish a defective policy of personal cash awards to 
Thai law enforcement officers who successfully seized contraband 
funds and assets. END SUMMARY. 
 
2.  (SBU) Ms. Linda Samuel, Deputy Chief of the Department of 
Justice Criminal Division/Asset Forfeiture and Money laundering 
Division called on the RTG Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) 
December 7 during a brief stopover in Bangkok.  Ms. Samuel's visit 
was occasioned by the Thai government's recent abolishment of a 
system that since 2004 paid personal rewards to law enforcement 
officers as a percentage of funds seized.  The Embassy and DOJ, as 
well as the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and several 
third-country embassies, had urged Thai authorities over the past 
three years to abolish the inherently ineffective policy that served 
to skew criminal case prioritization in favor of higher cash value 
targets.  The U.S. additionally halted technical assistance programs 
to AMLO while the controversial system was in place.  Joining Ms. 
Samuel was OPDAT Senior Regional Director for European/Pacific 
Programs Christopher Lehmann, Embassy NAS Director Terry Daru, NAS 
Resident Legal Advisor Phil Guentert, and USDOJ Office of 
International Affairs Attach Chris Sonderby.  The group was invited 
to AMLO by Anti-Money Laundering Board Secretary General Yuthabool 
Dissamarn and Deputy Secretary General Seehanat Prayoonrat, who 
wished to broach future assistance programs to Thailand now that the 
USG ban on assistance has been lifted. 
 
3.  (SBU) Ms Samuel's raised her concern at the onset that the Prime 
Minister's order to abolish the rewards system in fact contains a 
savings (grandfather) clause that would permit further payments for 
asset seizure that took place prior to the order's effective date. 
Yuthabool acknowledged that while the abolishment order 
theoretically allowed payments for cases that were finalized and 
approved for payment prior to October 2007, in fact only 'one or 
two' legacy cases now exist that could meet the criteria for 
payment, and that in any event no funds had or would be appropriated 
by the Parliament to AMLO in order to make such payments.  Yuthabool 
also explained that in additional to the Prime Minister's 
abolishment of the controversial rewards system, the Cabinet was 
working to restructure AMLO itself in order to add emphasis to its 
Financial Institution Unit (FIU) monitoring role as well as to 
upgrade AMLO's Asset Management Division to bureau status. 
 
4.  (SBU) Yuthabool and his senior staff went on to describe some of 
the goals that AMLO has developed in order to improve RTG monitoring 
and enforcement performance. These include: 
 
* Develop mechanisms for cooperation between the Ministry of 
Finance, the Department of Special Investigations and AMLO; 
 
* Issue and implement Ministerial Regulations to extend transaction 
reporting requirements to jewelry and gold shops, and real estate 
transactions; 
 
* Expand use of AMLO's sophisticated tracking software that relies 
on point-of-contact transaction reporting, to include electronic 
reporting and monitoring of all financial transactions; 
 
* Better regulate financial institutions, and levy fines; 
 
* Develop AMLO's existing Thai-created Asset Management Software 
(AMCATs) for 3rd party use; 
 
* Create Accessible Databases to manage and utilize  Terrorist Name 
Lists; 
 
* Develop methods with the USG to seize accounts and notify 
third-country FIUs; 
 
* Amend the money laundering law to add new predicate offenses and 
to address customer due diligence requirements for non-financial 
business sectors 
 
5.  (SBU) Yuthabool enthusiastically proposed new USG assistance in 
order to meet these goals and to build Thailand's overall anti-money 
laundering regime enforcement and competence.  AMLO is particularly 
interested in assistance and training to learn how to assess and 
regulate AML risks for non financial businesses and internet banking 
sectors, how to implement recent amendment to the Exchange Control 
Act, how to investigate, prosecute and forfeit assets related to new 
 
BANGKOK 00006254  002 OF 002 
 
 
predicate offenses, and how to improve international cooperation 
with respect to terrorist financing and managing restrained assets 
at the request of another country. S/G Yuthabool proposed training 
programs in Thailand by U.S. experts, selective visits by RTG 
officials to the U.S. and other capacity-building activities to be 
development with consultation of USDOJ and the Embassy. 
 
6.  (SBU) Working through the newly assigned NAS Resident Legal 
Advisor and NAS Director, Post will develop plans for delivery of 
USG assistance that may be feasible.  Post appreciates the continued 
close cooperation and guidance of DOJ's Criminal Division/Asset 
Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section regarding these important 
issues, and looks forward to providing further support to USG 
anti-money laundering efforts in Thailand. 
 
7. This report has been cleared by USDOJ/Linda Samuel. 
 
Boyce