Suspicious Activity Reporting to Combat Terrorism and Anti-Money Laundering

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Institutions are required by law to report "suspicious" individuals who may (or may not) be engaged in money laundering or terrorism financing. Institutions are required to secretly file "Suspicious Activity Reports" (SARs) to FINCEN. Institutions are forbidden to tell an individual that a SAR has been filed against them (purportedly, to avoid tipping bad guys off). Worse yet, the individual who files the SAR is completely indemnified from false-positives (even a hint of "suspicious activity" is reason enough to file a SAR) - no matter what damage these false-positives may bear for the individuals at the wrong end of the SAR.

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