Professional Anti Money Laundering Solutions
Professional Anti Money Laundering Solutions (PAMLS) is specialized in independent legal advice for issues related to the prevention of money laundering. The consulting services are qualified by substantial legal expertise, supplemented by the additional qualification as certified money laundering specialist (ACAMS) and the accumulated work experience as a Financial Intelligence Analyst at the FIU of the Republic of Bulgaria.
2. PAMLS is composed of a team of lawyers, who help clients to set up an effective risk management system to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing. We prepare a risk analysis together with the client and determine the current status of money laundering compliance. Based on the results, we derive the necessary internal security measures to protect the obligated parties and employees from criminal acts.
3. As an External Money laundering officer working as part of effective risk management, we provide clients with advice and support in the internal implementation of the money laundering regulations.
4. When the clients establish business relationships and in connection with transactions, we advise on time-critical know-your-customer checks, supporting them in the implementation of due diligence obligations.
5. We support our clients in the exchange with the responsible authorities.
6. We provide trainings for banks and other regulated entities under the AML Act
In the area of Risk analysis, we examine the company, its field of activity and structure of their customs. We create the internal structures to fulfil the obligations of the AMLA and determine the extent to which money laundering regulations must be observed
We develop company – specific typologies together with the client and define the results to be evaluated in a risk report.
About Attorney-at-Law Boryana Boshnakova LL.M. (Bulgaria), (Germany), CAMS (USA)
Boryana Boshnakova is a lawyer in both Germany and Bulgaria and a former agent in the Financial intelligence unit of the Republic of Bulgaria. She has been living and practicing in Germany for the last 12 years, where she established the Bulgarian-German law office Boshnakova.
She is an international expert and certified specialist and a member of the biggest international organization for professionals in the area of financial crime detection and prevention.
She is also certified as a data protection officer by the bar association in Stuttgart, Germany.
She graduated Law at Sofia University and specialized German business law at the University in Tübingen, Germany as well as business informatics at the University of media in Stuttgart, Germany.
At the German University of Tübingen, she defended a master’s thesis entitled “Advisability of criminalization of antitrust violations in Germany”, which was assessed with Summa cum laude.
She has six-year experience as a legal advisor and financial intelligence analyst in the financial intelligence unit of the Republic of Bulgaria.
For her professional achievements she was awarded by the Chairman of the State Agency for National Security.
She was a trainer as part of European projects “Taiex” and at the Ministry of interior academy, the FIU of North Macedonia, the International Banking Institute with which she is currently conducting certified trainings for the banking sector and financial institutions.
The acquired interdisciplinary experience of knowledge as a lawyer in two European countries, the qualification as an internationally certified specialist in the area of prevention and fight against ML and TF (ACAMS) as well as the professional experience as a legal expert and financial intelligence analyst in the FIU of RB provides the clients with a unique opportunity to look beyond the horizon and be able to implement good international practices in their activities.