Practice question
An employee invokes safe harbor to justify deliberately warning a customer that a suspicious transaction report has just been filed. Does protection for making the report itself automatically authorize this separate disclosure?
- Yes, every subsequent act is immune
- Yes, the customer must always receive the report
- Yes, reporting secrecy ends upon filing
- Only if the employee uses a phone
- No, the separate reporting-confidentiality prohibition must still be applied
Legal references
- AMLA Section 9(c), as amended by RA 9194 Section 6; malicious reporting Section14(c), amended by Section9: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2003/ra_9194_2003.html
- RA 10365 Section 7, reporting confidentiality: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2013/ra_10365_2013.html
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