BNM receives 250,000 suspicious transaction reports in 2022

KUALA LUMPUR: Bank Negara Malaysia’s (BNM) Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) received about 250,000 suspicious transaction reports (STRs) in 2022, representing a nearly 30 per cent increase from the year before, deputy governor Marzunisham Omar said.

He said the top five risk crimes -- fraud, corruption, smuggling, illicit drug trafficking and organised crimes, accounted for about 70 per cent of FIU’s disclosures to law enforcement agencies and foreign FIUs.