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zeekayandHanzo Dev 5c7d0fa655 the corporate name is Lux Industries Inc
Lux Partners Limited is not the entity behind this work. Every place the
old name stood — copyright lines, site footers, brand config, legal and
compliance text — now names the company that actually holds it.

lux.fund is the exception and is not renamed to match: that site belongs
to Lux Assets Management LLC, a different company, and it says so.

Two kinds of line were left for a person rather than rewritten. A dated
news item recording that Lux Partners Limited was established in the Isle
of Man is a historical fact, and renaming it would falsify the record. And
a sentence asserting that the company is domiciled in the Isle of Man is a
claim about a jurisdiction, not a name — an Inc or an LLC is not an Isle
of Man company, so swapping the name there would assert something untrue.

Co-authored-by: Hanzo Dev <[email protected]>
2026-08-28 11:00:51 -07:00

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// Copyright 2024-2026 Lux Industries Inc. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by the Apache 2.0
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
package regulatory
// UAEVARA implements the Jurisdiction interface for Dubai's Virtual Assets
// Regulatory Authority (VARA). VARA regulates virtual asset activities
// specifically within Dubai (outside DIFC), established by Law No. 4 of 2022.
type UAEVARA struct{}
func (v *UAEVARA) Name() string { return "UAE - VARA (Dubai)" }
func (v *UAEVARA) Code() string { return "AE-VARA" }
func (v *UAEVARA) RegulatoryFramework() string { return "vara" }
func (v *UAEVARA) PassportableTo() []string { return nil }
func (v *UAEVARA) Requirements() []Requirement {
return []Requirement{
{
ID: "ae-vara-licence",
Category: "licensing",
Description: "VARA licence for virtual asset service provision (exchange, broker-dealer, custody, lending, payments, advisory, transfer/settlement)",
Mandatory: true,
Reference: "Law No. 4 of 2022 (Virtual Assets and Related Activities); VARA Rulebook 2023",
},
{
ID: "ae-vara-aml",
Category: "aml",
Description: "AML/CFT compliance per VARA Compliance and Risk Management Rulebook",
Mandatory: true,
Reference: "VARA Compliance and Risk Management Rulebook 2023; Federal Decree-Law 20/2018",
},
{
ID: "ae-vara-kyc",
Category: "kyc",
Description: "Customer identification: Emirates ID/passport, proof of address, source of funds for virtual asset transactions",
Mandatory: true,
Reference: "VARA Compliance and Risk Management Rulebook 2023, Chapter 4",
},
{
ID: "ae-vara-travel-rule",
Category: "aml",
Description: "FATF Travel Rule compliance for virtual asset transfers (originator/beneficiary info)",
Mandatory: true,
Reference: "VARA Compliance and Risk Management Rulebook 2023; FATF Recommendation 16",
},
{
ID: "ae-vara-str",
Category: "reporting",
Description: "Suspicious Transaction Report to UAE FIU and VARA",
Mandatory: true,
Reference: "VARA Compliance and Risk Management Rulebook 2023, Chapter 5",
},
{
ID: "ae-vara-technology",
Category: "licensing",
Description: "Technology and information governance requirements for VASP platforms",
Mandatory: true,
Reference: "VARA Technology and Information Governance Rulebook 2023",
},
{
ID: "ae-vara-market-conduct",
Category: "reporting",
Description: "Market conduct rules: prohibition on market manipulation and insider trading for virtual assets",
Mandatory: true,
Reference: "VARA Market Conduct Rulebook 2023",
},
}
}
func (v *UAEVARA) ValidateApplication(app *ApplicationData) []Violation {
var violations []Violation
if app.GivenName == "" {
violations = append(violations, Violation{RequirementID: "ae-vara-kyc", Field: "given_name", Message: "Full name is required for VARA KYC", Severity: "error"})
}
if app.FamilyName == "" {
violations = append(violations, Violation{RequirementID: "ae-vara-kyc", Field: "family_name", Message: "Family name is required for VARA KYC", Severity: "error"})
}
if app.DateOfBirth == "" {
violations = append(violations, Violation{RequirementID: "ae-vara-kyc", Field: "date_of_birth", Message: "Date of birth is required for VARA KYC", Severity: "error"})
}
if len(app.Street) == 0 || app.Street[0] == "" {
violations = append(violations, Violation{RequirementID: "ae-vara-kyc", Field: "street", Message: "Residential address is required", Severity: "error"})
}
if app.Email == "" {
violations = append(violations, Violation{RequirementID: "ae-vara-kyc", Field: "email", Message: "Email address is required", Severity: "error"})
}
if app.FundingSource == "" {
violations = append(violations, Violation{RequirementID: "ae-vara-kyc", Field: "funding_source", Message: "Source of funds is required under VARA Compliance Rulebook Chapter 4", Severity: "error"})
}
if app.IsPoliticallyExposed == nil {
violations = append(violations, Violation{RequirementID: "ae-vara-aml", Field: "is_politically_exposed", Message: "PEP status declaration is required under VARA AML rules", Severity: "error"})
}
if app.IsPoliticallyExposed != nil && *app.IsPoliticallyExposed {
violations = append(violations, Violation{RequirementID: "ae-vara-aml", Field: "is_politically_exposed", Message: "Enhanced due diligence required: customer is a PEP", Severity: "warning"})
}
return violations
}
func (v *UAEVARA) TransactionLimits() *Limits {
return &Limits{
SingleTransactionMax: 500_000,
DailyMax: 2_000_000,
MonthlyMax: 10_000_000,
CTRThreshold: 55_000,
TravelRuleMin: 3_675, // AED 3,675 (~USD 1k FATF travel rule, applicable to virtual assets)
Currency: "AED",
}
}