Money laundering and financial intelligence
Whole chapter · 14–21 focused hours
Money laundering and financial intelligence
General-studies learner with basic Indian constitutional institutions and the Science computing/network foundation; no policing or technical security background assumed.
Includes
- Assigned sections and concise recall notes
- Available mapped practice and analysis of mistakes
- One initial closed-book review
Separate time needed
- Later revision and full mock tests
- Continuing current-affairs updates
- Technical security operations or legal-professional training
- Foundational constitutional and network material budgeted in other subjects
Editorial planning estimate; not learner timing data
- Laundering concepts
- International response
- Financial intelligence
- Financial enforcement
- Risk assessment and preventive controls
- PMLA duties and review safeguards
- Evaluating an anti-laundering system
Whole chapter reading
- Frequently Asked Questions: Money Laundering ↗
Money Laundering: What is Money Laundering? and How is money laundered?
- Frequently Asked Questions: Money Laundering ↗
General Questions: FATF role; Money Laundering: What should individual governments be doing about it? and How does fighting money laundering help fight crime?
- Functions of FIU-IND ↗
Overview and Functions of FIU-IND; no staffing figures
- Directorate of Enforcement: What we do ↗
What we do: Prevention of Money Laundering Act paragraph
- FATF Recommendations, updated June 2026 ↗
June 2026 edition: Recommendations 1, 8, 10, 15, 20–21 and 24, printed pages 10, 13–15, 17, 19 and 22 (PDF +1); glossary Beneficial owner, printed page 126 (PDF 127), including footnote 98. Study principles, not domestic thresholds or a professional implementation checklist.
- The Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, 2002 ↗
As on 27 July 2025: sections 2(1)(u),(wa), 3, 5, 8(1)–(2),(5)–(8), 12(1)–(2), 19, 26(1)–(2),(4), 42; PDF pages 9–11, 13–14, 16, 21, 23–26. Read powers with conditions and review routes; exclude obsolete procedural-code references, notification lists, full bail jurisprudence and professional deadline advice.
- Trade-Based Money Laundering: 2006 overview ↗
2006 report landing-page definition and closing practical-response paragraphs; trade channel and information sharing. Exclude forecasts and operational case instructions.
- India Mutual Evaluation 2024: Executive Summary ↗
Paragraph 1; paragraphs 23–29 and 31–34; Priority Actions on trial delays; and both ratings tables. PDF pages 1, 5–7 and 9. A dated evaluation of measures at the November 2023 visit, not a 2026 rating or proof of subsequent implementation.