On April 30, 2023, the Secretariat for the Prevention of Money or Asset Laundering (Secretaría de Prevención de Lavado de Dinero o Bienes - SEPRELAD, by its Spanish acronym) issued Resolution No. 112/23, approving the procedures and requirements for registration in the SEPRELAD Registry of regulated entities in the pawnshop sector through SEPRELAD´S Integral Operations Reporting System (Sistema Integrado de Reporte de Operaciones - SIRO, by its Spanish acronym), and annexing the procedures and requirements for such registration.
Likewise, Resolution No. 112/23 urges such regulated entities to register or re-register, in case they are already registered, through the SIRO, establishing a registration or re-registration update period for regulated entities already registered under Resolution SEPRELAD No. 218/11, until June 30, 2023.
Additionally, it renders ineffective all the registration certificates of such regulated entities within the framework of Resolution SEPRELAD No. 218/11 as of July 1, 2023.
For further information please contact Cynthia Fatecha (cfatecha@vouga.com.py), Carlos Vouga (cvouga@vouga.com.py), Georg Birbaumer (gbirbaumer@vouga.com.py) or your usual Vouga contact.
