BNM Annual Report 2022
In 2022, 242,914 Suspicious Transaction Report (STRs) were received, a 27% increase from 2021. Both STRs on fraud and money laundering offences continued to increase. High-risk crimes represent approximately 70% of the FIU’s disclosures to law enforcement agencies and foreign FIUs.
The remaining 30% involved other crimes such as tax offences, human trafficking and illegal remittance. These disclosures resulted in the arrests of 51 individuals, freezing and seizing of assets of more than RM570 million as well as revenue recovery of RM372 million in relation to crimes such as organised crimes and tax offences.
High risk crimes refer to fraud, corruption, organised crimes,smuggling and drugs trafficking, as identified under the National
Risk Assessment on ML/TF 2020.
In addition, terrorism, terrorism
financing and proliferation financing are also deemed as priority from national security perspective.
