Combating Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Commission, the AML decree chain: executive instructions to Decree 33 and its amendments (decision 1311 of 28 April 2014), decision 3316 amending 1311, and Decree 46 of 2013 amending Decree 27 of 2011
Source ID
SRC-207
Citation
Combating Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Commission, the AML decree chain: executive instructions to Decree 33 and its amendments (decision 1311 of 28 April 2014), decision 3316 amending 1311, and Decree 46 of 2013 amending Decree 27 of 2011
URL or path
research/SRC-207_CMLC_executive_instructions_decree33_1311.pdf; research/SRC-207_CMLC_decision_3316_amending_1311.pdf; research/SRC-207_CMLC_decree_46_of_2013_amending_27_of_2011.pdf; research/SRC-207_decree_33_of_2005_base.pdf; research/SRC-207_decree_27_of_2011_amending_33.pdf; page images at research/SRC-207_decree_33_of_2005_base_pages/
Type
Enacted law and subordinate instruments, Syrian, Arabic
Hierarchy tier
1
Published
2005-05-01
Accessed
2026-08-17
Snapshot
Retrieved 17 August 2026 direct from cmlc.gov.sy, HTTP 200; the section holds 15 files and three were taken
Claims
CH6 the Syrian AML/CFT legal framework and its lineage
Status
READ_IN_PART
Version history
The register keeps changing after the book is fixed in print. Each entry below was added to this row in the order shown.
RETRIEVED 17 August 2026 AND NOT OPENED. Reading owed, not a gap. THE LISTING ALREADY CORRECTS THE PICTURE THE INVESTOR GUIDE GAVE. SRC-192's Annex 3 names a single 'Regulation 33 of 2005'. THE COMMISSION'S OWN SECTION SHOWS A CHAIN: Decree 33 of 2005 with executive instructions issued as decision 1311 of 28 April 2014, decision 3316 amending 1311, and DECREE 46 OF 2013 AMENDING DECREE 27 OF 2011. So the operative AML instrument may be Decree 27 of 2011 as amended rather than the 2005 decree, and THE CHAPTER MAY NOT NAME AN OPERATIVE AML LAW UNTIL THESE ARE READ. The 2005 decree itself is among the fifteen files and is not yet identified by filename.
CORRECTED AND EXTENDED 17 August 2026. THE FILE COUNT IN THE SNAPSHOT WAS WRONG: the page shows 15 occurrences of a download path because each record carries a view link and a download link, and it holds FIVE DISTINCT FILES. All five are now identified and the chain is complete on the Commission's own listing: LEGISLATIVE DECREE 33 OF 2005; DECREE 27 OF 2011, dated 14 February 2011, described in the listing as amending Decree 33 of 2005; DECREE 46 OF 2013, dated 9 July 2013, amending Decree 27 of 2011; the EXECUTIVE INSTRUCTIONS to Decree 33 and its amendments issued as decision 1311 of 28 April 2014; and DECISION 3316 amending 1311. Decree 33 of 2005 and Decree 27 of 2011 are now also held. ALL ARE IMAGE-ONLY SCANS WITH NO TEXT LAYER and must be read from rendered images. NONE IS YET READ.
DECREE 33 READ 17 August 2026 AT PAGES 1 AND 10 from rendered images; pages 2 to 9 are reading owed, and the other four files in the chain are still unread. A DATE THIS ROW GOT WRONG IS CORRECTED AT THE DOCUMENT. Earlier strata said 5 January 2005, taken from the Commission's own listing on the assumption its dates run year-month-day. THE DECREE'S OWN FOOT READS 'دمشق في 23/3/1426 هـ الموافق 1/5/2005 م', DAMASCUS, 1 MAY 2005, and Decision 19 at SRC-209 cites it as 1/5/2005, which agrees. THE LISTING IS THE ODD ONE OUT AND THE INFERENCE WAS MINE: a date format read off a table is not a date read off an instrument. It is signed by President Bashar al-Assad, and the copy held carries a Central Bank receipt stamp of 5 May 2005 and a handwritten routing note to the Central Bank, so this is the Central Bank's filed copy. ARTICLE 1 DEFINES MONEY LAUNDERING as any conduct intended to conceal or change the identity of funds connected with unlawful operations, so as to disguise their true sources and make them appear to result from lawful operations. It defines FUNDS broadly, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, including legal documents whether ELECTRONIC OR DIGITAL evidencing ownership, and naming national and foreign currency, banking facilities, travellers' and bank cheques, transfers, shares, securities, bonds, bills of exchange and documentary credits. It defines UNLAWFUL FUNDS by a list of predicate offences committed inside Syria OR OUTSIDE IT: narcotics; acts of criminal associations under Penal Code articles 325 and 326 and all internationally recognised organised crime; TERRORISM OFFENCES UNDER PENAL CODE ARTICLES 304 AND 305 and under international, regional and bilateral agreements to which Syria is party; arms and explosives smuggling; migrant smuggling, piracy and kidnapping; organised prostitution, trafficking in persons and children, and unlawful trafficking in human organs. ARTICLE 20 REPEALS LEGISLATIVE DECREE 59 OF 2003, so there is an earlier AML instrument the chain did not show and which is NOT HELD. ARTICLE 21 USES THE SAME FORMULA AS DECREE 112 AT SRC-165: 'this legislative decree is published in the Official Gazette and is deemed effective from the date of its issuance'. Whether it was gazetted is as unchecked here as there, and SRC-194 carries that retrieval. ARTICLE 17 sets the penalty for breaching articles 4, 5, 6, 9, 11/أ, 11/ج and 12 at three months to a year and a fine of 250,000 to 1,000,000 Syrian pounds, WHICH IS A 2005 NOMINAL FIGURE AND IS SUBJECT TO EVERYTHING SAID AT SRC-209 ABOUT DRIFT AND REDENOMINATION. Article 19(د) places the additional financial burden of applying the decree on the banks operating in Syria. Article 18 provides for judicial cooperation with foreign judicial authorities on reciprocity.