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 Detection Method: Payment to High-Risk Country

 

Use this detection method to examine line items in accounting documents for payments to creditors in high-risk countries. A high-risk country is one that is characterized by high levels of corruption, or by risk of instability or conflict, or by regulatory or trade risk. This method checks creditor bank account locations against a list of high-risk countries that you specify.

This detection method finds suspicious payments by examining the payment proposal associated with such a line item. This means that such payments can be detected before final approval. The method evaluates outgoing payments from the payment proposal run for vendors, customers, CPD (one-time) vendors and CPD customers. It only considers payments in which the bank account is specified (the relevant field is filled).

A detection result of 100 is returned if the following are true:

  • The creditor’s bank account is located in one of the high-risk countries that is evaluated by the detection method; and

  • The country in which the payment originates is different from the country in which the creditor’s bank account is located.

    This last condition means that payments in high-risk countries are not flagged if both the payee and the creditor bank are located in the same country. An alert should not be created if a company is doing business locally in a high-risk country.

Logic

High-risk country lists belong to technology shared among detection rules. For more information on this functionality, see High-Risk Country Screening.

Investigation and Detection Object Types

  • Investigation object type: FRA_DOC_IT (Accounting Document Line Item for Outgoing Payment)

  • Detection object type: FRA_PAYPRO (Payment Proposal Item)

ERP Tables Used

  • REGUH: Settlement data from payment program

  • REGUP: Processed items from payment program

  • T001: Company Codes

  • BKPF: Accounting Document Header

  • BSEC: One-Time Account Data Document Segment

SAP HANA Procedures for Detection Methods

Procedure Category

Procedure Name

Procedure Type

Package

Selection

PR_PAYM_HIGH_RISK_CTRY_SELE

SQLScript Procedure

sap.hana-app.fra.suite.acc.dt. accdocitem.paymentproposalitem.se

Execution

PR_PAYM_HIGH_RISK_CTRY_EXEC

SQLScript Procedure

sap.hana-app.fra.suite.acc.dt. accdocitem.paymentproposalitem.ex

Additional Information

PR_PAYM_HIGH_RISK_CTRY_ADDINF

SQLScript Procedure

sap.hana-app.fra.suite.acc.dt. accdocitem.paymentproposalitem.ai
Detection Method Parameters

  • BOTTOM_N_RANKS is filled with a numeric value (for example 10) and determines how many of the highest, worst ranks of high-risk countries are to be considered in the detection process.

    If the list has 174 ranks, and BOTTOM_N_RANKS is set to 10, then the countries ranked 165th through 174th would be evaluated.

  • HIGH_RISK_COUNTRY_LIST contains the ID of the high-risk country list to use.

Alert Messages

  • Message ID FRA_INTERNAL_AUDIT, message number 126, Vendor &1 (&2): payment to bank account in high risk country &3