Professional Football and Anti-Money Laundering Assessment of the Application of the Belgian Anti-money Laundering Legal Framework to Professional Football

This book maps the newly-amended Belgian 'Preventative Anti-Money Laundering Law' (PAML) and its application to the professional football sector in Belgium. This publication is the first to provide an in depth overview of the content, requirements and obligations of the PAML as well as an initial appraisal of this extension of the PAML from both a doctrinal and theoretical perspective.

Prof. dr. Niels Appermont is Associate Professor at Hasselt University (Belgium), and also currently a member of the RBFA’ s Clearing Chamber. He has published extensively on matters relating to both economic law and tax law, and has been awarded several research bursaries in these fields. Dr. William Bull is Assistant Professor at Maastricht University (the Netherlands). His most recent publications have focused on the regulation of access to and the exercise of the profession of football intermediary, both from a comparative perspective as well as in the light of law and economics theory.