Money Laundering & Tax Evasion

This session explores the link between tax evasion and money laundering, placing both within the Maltese, EU, and international AML/CFT framework. It highlights key legal concepts, enforcement trends, common typologies, red flags, and the practical role of obliged entities in identifying, assessing, and reporting tax‑related money laundering risks.

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The Speaker

Ariane Azzopardi is a Director within the Quality and Risk Management function. She has over fifteen years’ experience in this field, and is the delegate of the Risk Management Partner at KPMG in Malta. She is involved in the implementation and monitoring compliance with quality and risk management policies and procedures in KPMG in Malta also handling compliance and risk management queries, including those related to the Prevention of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (PMLFT) and ethics and independence. She delivers sessions on PMLFT at the KPMG roundtable and also at various other seminars and conferences.

Ariane is the chair of the PMLFT sub-committee at the Malta Institute of Accountants and a committee member of the PMLFT sub-committee at the Institute of Financial Services Practitioners.