September 25 2017
Reports of money laundering are becoming more common in Finland, and law enforcement officials say that in some cases laundered cash is later used to finance terrorist activities, the National Bureau of Investigation told the newspaper Uutissuomalainen.
So far this year, the National Bureau of Investigation received some 23,400 criminal complaints of suspected cases of money laundering, according to a report in Uutissuomalainen. Vasara said the recent increase is largely attributable to banks’ increasing vigilance – and most criminal complaints the NBI receive about money laundering are usually about private customers.
If the trend continues, an NBI money laundering investigator Pekka Vasara said that the number of criminal complaints could rise to 50,000 by the end of the year.