Which customers might pose money laundering risk?

A business might be at the risk of money laundering from:

1. customers who are not local to the business.
2. customers involved in a business that handles large amounts of cash.
3. new customers carrying out large, one-off transactions.
4. a customer introduced to the business – because the person who introduced them may not have carried out ‘due diligence’ thoroughly.
5. businesses with a complicated ownership structure that could conceal underlying beneficiaries.
6. a customer, or group of customers, who makes transactions with the same individual or group of individuals.