Dear business partners,
In connection with Act No. 253/2008 Coll., on certain measures against the legalization of proceeds from crime and terrorist financing, hereinafter referred to as the “AML Act,” persons trading in cultural monuments, objects of cultural value, or precious metals are required to verify the identity and perform customer due diligence to the extent specified by the AML Act.
If you are in active business relations with us, e.g., buying or selling goods as our business partners, we ask for your cooperation in complying with the AML Act. It is our obligation to fill out an AML questionnaire with you, which will include your identification, the actual owner of the company, the nature of your business, sources of income, and the purpose and nature of the intended transaction. Copies of the documents submitted, including your ID card or passport, will also be made. A declaration of whether or not you are a politically exposed person is an essential part of the above questionnaire. The data obtained will not be sent anywhere and will be archived by the company.
Thank you for your cooperation!
For the purposes of this Act, a politically exposed person is defined as
a) a natural person who holds or has held a prominent public position of national or regional importance, such as head of state, prime minister, head of a central government agency and his or her deputy (deputy minister, secretary of state), a member of parliament, a member of the governing body of a political party, a senior representative of a local government, a judge of the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Court or another supreme judicial body whose decisions are generally, with some exceptions, not subject to appeal, a member of the central bank’s board, a senior officer of the armed forces or corps, a member or representative of a member, if it is a legal entity, of the management or supervisory body of a state-controlled commercial corporation, an ambassador or head of a diplomatic mission, or a natural person who performs or has performed a similar function in another state, in a European Union body or in an international organization,
b) a natural person who is
1. a person close to the person referred to in point a),
2. a partner or beneficial owner of the same legal entity or trust as the person referred to in point (a), or is known to the obligated person to be in any other close business relationship with the person referred to in point (a), or
3. the beneficial owner of a legal entity or trust which the obligated person
knows to have been created for the benefit of the person referred to in point (a).
For the purposes of this Act, a beneficial owner means
a) a beneficial owner under the Act regulating the registration of beneficial owners (Act No. 37/2021 Coll., on the registration of beneficial owners) or
b) a natural person on whose behalf the transaction is carried out.
