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What is a "politically significant person"?

PEP - politically exposed person

Written by Martins Vilums

Politically significant person - a person who holds or has held a significant public position in the Republic of Latvia, another Member State or a third country, including a senior official of state power, head of a state administrative unit (local government), head of government, minister (deputy minister or deputy minister, if there is such a position in the respective country), secretary of state or other high-level official in the government or state administrative unit (municipality), member of parliament or similar legislative body, member of the governing body of the political party, constitutional courts, supreme courts or other courts judge (member of a judicial institution), member of the council or board of the supreme audit institution, member of the council or board of the central bank, ambassador, authorized clerk, senior officer of the armed forces, member of the council or board of a state corporation, head of an international organization deputy director) and a member of the board or a person holding an equivalent position in that organization;

Family member of a politically significant person - a person who is a person referred to in Paragraph 18 of this Section:

(a) the spouse or a person treated as such. A person shall be deemed to be a person comparable to a spouse only if the law of that State provides for such a status,

(b) a child or a child of the spouse of a politically exposed person or of a person treated as such, his or her spouse or a person treated as such;

(c) a parent, grandparent or grandchild,

(d) brother or sister;

A person closely related to a politically significant person - a natural person who is known to have a business or other close relationship with any of the persons referred to in Paragraph 18 of this Article or is a shareholder or participant in the same commercial company with any of The persons referred to in Paragraph 18, as well as a natural person who is the sole owner of such a legal arrangement, of which it is known that it has actually been established for the benefit of the person referred to in Paragraph 18 of this Section;

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