About 13,000 cases were opened in 2011 in connection with money laundering, which exceeds the number of similar cases in 2010 by 17%.
The federal agencies think it is the highest level ever since the adoption of the Money Laundering Act in 1993.
According to the leading European expert on the issue, Friedrich Schneider from University of Linz (Austria), “most of criminal money goes to Germany from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine”.
Press release from FIU Germany (BKA; in German) : Zahl der Geldwäscheverdachtsanzeigen erneut gestiegen (translated in English: click here)
Link to the Annual report from 2011 (in German): click here (check this link for English version, to be available soon)
Related news link in Bild.de (in German) : So waschen Kriminelle ihr Geld in Deutschland