FinCEN Suspicious Activity Report

evgenydmitriev commented 3 years ago

BuzzFeed and their partners released stories about a trove of almost 2,500 Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) filed by banks with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) between 2000 and 2017. They included thousands of suspicious bank transactions totaling over $35B. In cooperation with BuzzFeed, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published a dataset that includes detailed information on 4500 suspicious transactions. There's evidence that some leaked SARs involve cryptocurrency-related activity.

For example, on January 15, 2016, $1M was moved from the Bank of China’s account to Saigon Thuong Tin Commercial Joint Stock Bank, a Vietnam-based financial institution. One day prior to that, on January 14, 2016, a transfer of approximately the same amount ($1,003,862.21061 at the time) was spotted on Bitcoin blockchain to 3HNSiAq7wFDaPsYDcUxNSRMD78qVcYKicw address. This address received funds from a drained Cryptsy hot wallet, a now defunct cryptocurrency trading platform. Cryptsy’s CEO Paul Vernon claimed this was due to a hack, but was accused of stealing customer funds and is facing a class action lawsuit.

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