Money Laundering Suppression Act of 1994
Amends Federal law to prescribe guidelines for both mandatory and discretionary
exemptions from monetary transaction reporting requirements for depository institutions.
(Sec. 402) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury (the Secretary) to:
(1) submit an annual status report to the Congress on the consequent reduction in the
overall number of currency transaction reports;
(2) streamline currency transaction reports to eliminate information of little value for
law enforcement purposes;
(3) assign a single designee to receive reports of suspicious transactions; and
(4) submit annual reports to the Congress on the number of suspicious transactions
reported.
(Sec. 404) Requires each appropriate Federal banking agency to review and enhance:
(1) training and examination procedures to improve the identification of money
laundering schemes involving depository institutions; and
(2) procedures for referring cases to appropriate law enforcement agencies.
Requires the Secretary and each appropriate law enforcement agency to provide
information regularly to each appropriate Federal banking agency regarding money
laundering schemes and activities involving depository institutions in order to enhance
agency ability to examine for and identify money laundering activity.
Requires the Financial Institutions Examination Council to report to the Congress on the
usefulness of the reporting of criminal schemes by law enforcement agencies.
(Sec. 405) Includes negotiable instruments drawn on foreign banks within the purview of
monetary transactions subject to Federal recordkeeping and reporting requirements.
(Sec. 406) Requires the Secretary to delegate to Federal banking agencies any authority to
assess civil money penalties.
(Sec. 407) Expresses the sense of