As of February 24, the SCFM received 152,514 notifications from the subjects of primary financial monitoring about financial transactions that need to be verified.
Since the beginning of the war, the SCFM, in cooperation with law enforcement agencies, has frozen more than UAH 1 billion in 355 bank accounts on suspicion of financing the activities of pro-Russian structures and terrorist organizations. This is stated in the materials of the SCFM, which are available to the editors.
It is noted that these funds were suspended under the schemes identified by the SCFM as a unit of financial intelligence. In total, for the period from February 24 to May 12, 2022, the SCFM received 152,514 notifications from the subjects of primary financial monitoring of financial transactions to be audited. Of these:
- 5,611 reports of suspicious financial transactions (activities);
- 146,531 reports of threshold transactions;
- 11 reports of threshold and suspicious transactions;
- 361 reports, received on request for tracking.
During the same period, the SCFM received 43,936 notifications of financial transactions for the transfer of funds abroad. All these transfers are checked within the current legislation.
It will be recalled that on February 24, the NBU board imposed restrictions on cross-border transfers of currency values outside Ukraine.
In accordance with the Law of Ukraine obtained by criminal means, financing of terrorism and financing of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction “, the subjects of primary financial monitoring are:
- absolutely all business entities that provide financial services in Ukraine;
- postal operators, other institutions that provide funds transfer services (postal money order) ) and foreign exchange transactions;
- audit entities; accountants, business entities that provide accounting services;
- business entities that provide tax advice;
- law firms, law associations and lawyers who practice law individually;
- notaries;
- business entities that provide legal services;
persons that provide services for the establishment, operation or management of legal entities; - sub ' business entities that provide intermediary services during the sale and purchase of real estate, as well as business entities that provide consulting services related to the purchase and sale of real estate for a fee;
- business entities that trade in cash for precious metals and precious stones and articles thereof;
- entities farms that provide services in the field of lotteries and/or gambling; Virtual Asset Circulation Service Provider.
