{"id":772253,"date":"2026-07-01T14:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/772253\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T14:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:38:12","slug":"news-estate-agents-lawyers-and-accountants-fall-under-australias-aml-rules-from-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/772253\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS: Estate agents, lawyers and accountants fall under Australia\u2019s AML rules from today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By PAUL O\u2019DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent<\/p>\n<p>AROUND 80,000 additional Australian businesses, including real estate agents and accountants, fall under AML\/CTF laws from today.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion covers real estate agents, lawyers, conveyancers, accountants and dealers in precious metals and stones.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/phone-tablet-desktop.png\" alt=\"AML Intelligence\"\/><br \/>\nSubscribe now to have unlimited access<\/p>\n<p class=\"amlpmp-content-message__description\">With our membership subscription, you will have unlimited access to the AML Intelligence site, updated daily with the latest analysis, opinion, and breaking news across the sector, newsletter delivered twice per week, access to our Global Bank Fines &amp; Penalties database, free access to Boardroom Series and more!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"amlpmp-content-message__button amlpmp-content-message__button--primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amlintelligence.com\/membership-account\/membership-levels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View subscription options<\/a><a class=\"amlpmp-content-message__button amlpmp-content-message__button--transparent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amlintelligence.com\/login\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">If you have an account, log in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By PAUL O\u2019DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent AROUND 80,000 additional Australian businesses, including real estate agents and accountants, fall under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,18073,63,23020,44,1003],"class_list":["post-772253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrac","tag-australia","tag-legal","tag-news","tag-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}