Businesses involved in gold and jewellery trading and account auditing face administrative fines of up to BD50,000 for breaches of Bahrain’s anti-money laundering and terrorist financing rules under a new decision issued by Industry and Commerce Minister Abdulla bin Adel Fakhro.The penalties range from BD1,000 to BD2,500 for a wide range of compliance failures, including inadequate customer checks, failure to report suspicious transactions, poor record-keeping and breaches of sanctions requirements .
