902 DECLARATION OF POLICY

902 DECLARATION OF POLICY

The Bangko Sentral adopts the policies of the State to (a) protect and preserve the integrity of the Philippine financial system, including the confidentiality of bank accounts; (b) ensure that the Philippines, in general, and the covered persons, in particular, shall not be used, respectively, as a money laundering sites and conduit for the proceeds of an unlawful activity as herein defined; (c) to protect life, liberty and property from acts of terrorism and to condemn terrorism and those who support and finance it and reinforce the fight against terrorism by criminalizing the financing of terrorism and related offenses;(d) recognize terrorism and terrorist financing as inimical and dangerous to national security and the welfare of the people; and make the financing of terrorism a crime against the Filipino people, against humanity and against the law of nations; and (e)adhere to international commitments to combat financing of terrorism, specifically the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, as well as other binding terrorism related resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, pursuant to Chapter 7 of the United Nations Charter.

(Circular Nos. 1022 dated 26 November 2018 , 950 dated 15 March 2017)