Uif, leap in anti-money laundering reports. Lighthouse on 49 billion operations
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In 2022, the number of anti-money laundering reports increased by 11.4% compared to last year, reaching 155,426. The checks by the Bank of Italy’s Financial Intelligence Unit, under the new direction of Enzo Serata, aim at increasingly accurate monitoring of communications in order to trace criminal financial movements, with a particular focus on the phenomenon of dirty finance of the mafias.
Sos and amounts increase
According to the data, in the second half of 2022 the UIF received 81,228 suspicious transaction reports (Sos), with an increase of 17.0% compared to the same period of the previous year. Vigorous growth in the second half of the year which brought the total number of reports received in 2022 to 155,426 (+11.4% on the previous year), confirming the high growth rate already seen in 2021.
The amounts of the transactions reported exceeded 51 billion euro (approximately 49 billion those relating to transactions actually carried out), against the over 47 billion in the second half of the previous year.
In the period considered, the Unit analyzed and sent 80,754 to the investigative bodies
reports (69,659 in the same period of 2021) and adopted 13 measures to suspend suspicious transactions for a value of 105.3 million euro.
Communications from the regions and from abroad
Compared to the second half of the previous year, there have been increases for Sos referred to operations carried out in all regions; the largest in absolute terms are recorded in Campania, Lombardy, Lazio and Puglia. At the provincial level, Milan, Crotone, Siena, Naples and Rome are in the first five places in terms of number of reports in relation to the population.
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