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Sanctions Evasion – A Practical Understanding

Sanctions Evasion – A Practical Understanding

By European Institute of Management and Finance

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Highlights

  • Live Online

  • 6 CPD Units | 6 Hours

  • HRDA Subsidised

Dates

  • October 2026
      to   (2 sessions)
    Delivered Online
    €140 - €260
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The EIMF Live Online Learning Experience

Participants will receive access to the recorded sessions of the course.

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Course Overview

With the recent increase of international financial sanctions, new sanctions evasion techniques have come to light.

This course will offer a brief refresher on the general sanctions regimes and their impact, as well as providing participants with the latest information on the existing and emerging sanctions evasion methods. Participants will also be able to gain insight into the best practices for sanctions due diligence, notable name screening and quality assurance controls, including for conducting investigations.

Finally, participants will be invited to discover a practical case study to resolve.

Training Objectives

By attending this programme participants will:

  • Refresh their knowledge on sanctions

  • Discover and understand sanctions evasion techniques

  • Understand how to perform sanctions due diligence

  • Know what to focus on in name screening

  • Understand how to investigate sanctions and their evasion

Training Outline

Legal & regulatory framework – Sanctions Refresher

  • What the sanctions are about

  • Quick overview of different regimes and their impact

Evasion methods – common techniques and role of third countries

  • Corporate structures

  • Beneficial ownership

  • Special schemes

Sanctions due diligence

  • Key attention points – documentation, discrepancies in information, red flags

Sanctions screening

  • Transaction Monitoring

  • Name Screening

  • Restricted Securities

Investigations

  • Methodology to conduct sanctions investigations

  • Asset freezing and asset recovery

Case study

Who Should Attend

The programme is ideal for:

  • CCOs

  • AMLCOs / MLROs

  • Head / Deputy Heads of FCC

  • Directors

  • Senior Managers

  • Regulatory compliance officers

  • AML / KYC / Sanctions Officers

  • Chief legal officers

  • Legal advisors

  • Internal auditors

Training Style

The training style is both training-focused, involving a combination of lectures, presentations and real-live practical examples, but also learner-focused, where participants are encouraged to raise questions, seek clarifications and share their opinions from their different perspectives and engage in an exchange of views and personal professional experiences.

CPD Recognition

This programme may be approved for up to 6 CPD units in Financial Regulation and AML. Eligibility criteria and CPD Units are verified directly by your association, regulator or other bodies which you hold membership.

This training course may be approved as an external activity under the new ACAMS recertification category ”non-ACAMS credits” for up to 6 CPD units. Eligibility criteria and CPD Units are verified directly by the Association of Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS). To read more about the non-ACAMS credits policies and eligibility criteria please click here.

In-house Training

For groups within the same organisation, this course may be customized to meet any specific needs and delivered in-house.

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Facilitators

  • Holger Pauco Dirscherl

    Holger Pauco Dirscherl

    Holger Pauco-Dirscherl is an experienced and passionate Senior Financial Crime Prevention Professional with a unique blend of international knowledge, expertise and experience and fluent in English together with a good reputation in the national and international Financial Crime Prevention field. He holds an MBA from The Open University Business School and is certified as CAMS, CGSS, CAMS-Audit, CFE and CFCS. He worked in different operational and managerial roles within Financial Crime Prevention covering all areas such as AML, CTF, Fraud, Sanctions and ABC as well as KYC/CDD, KYE, Cross-Border Compliance, International Information Sharing, FATCA and other Compliance topics and including auditing all such topics.. Within these areas he covered both operational activities such as Procedures, Trainings, Monitoring, Screening and Controls as well as strategic activities as Risk Assessments, Policies, Projects and Framework build-ups within an ever changing local and global regulatory environment. Holger also investigated large, complex and international Money Laundering, Sanctions, Corruption and Fraud cases and identified suspicious activity and weak controls, processes, manuals and policies. Within his activities he offered pragmatic solutions to minimise Financial Crime and Regulatory Risk. He is also a recognized SME for Financial Crime Prevention heading the ACAMS Germany Chapter which he also founded, giving a wide range of trainings and acts as a speaker on conferences and symposiums both national and international.