Journée de droit pénal économique 2026 - 25
ans de lutte contre le blanchiment d'argent
Criminals increasingly exploit the art market's opacity to
launder funds, leveraging portable assets with subjective pricing,
confidential intermediaries, and cross‑border private sales
that obscure audit trails—often aided by freeports.
Techniques include misinvoicing, shell and trust structures,
third‑party payments, rapid flips to fabricate price
validation, manipulated provenance, and use of auction exemptions
or private treaty sales to limit disclosure, with digital channels
enabling peer‑to‑peer transfers and tokenized
fractional ownership. Regulators are extending
financial‑sector standards—customer due diligence,
beneficial ownership checks, sanctions screening, and suspicious
activity reporting—to dealers, galleries, auction houses,
and, in some places, freeports and antiquities traders. Effective
programs center on risk‑based onboarding, robust
source‑of‑funds and
