The fight against financial crimes has been intensified in Ukraine, and according to the results of the work of the State Financial Monitoring Service (State Financial Monitoring) for 2024, more than 6.1 billion hryvnias were blocked due to suspicious financial transactions that may be related to money laundering, corruption, or terrorist financing.
In 2024, the State Financial Monitoring Service received 1,302,053 reports of financial transactions subject to monitoring. This is 27% more than last year. Most of these reports (80%) concern threshold transactions - those exceeding 400 thousand hryvnias per month. However, about 20% or 254.5 thousand transactions raise suspicions due to possible links to money laundering or terrorism.
Of all reports, 99% come from banks, while only 1% are transmitted by non-bank financial institutions such as credit unions, insurance companies, and pawn shops.
After verification, suspicious transactions are transferred to law enforcement agencies for further investigation. In 2024, the State Financial Monitoring Service sent 780 materials to law enforcement agencies.
- The National Police received the largest number of cases — 223 materials (28.6% of the total) related to fraud, financial fraud, and cybercrime worth over 15 billion hryvnias.
- to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) . These are cases related to treason, collaborationism, and the activities of criminal organizations.
- The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has received 120 materials related to corruption among high-ranking officials, including ministers, deputies, judges, and heads of state-owned enterprises, totaling 7.06 billion hryvnias.
- 109 materials were related to suspicion of financing terrorism or separatism, and 173 materials indicate corruption risks involving 12.1 billion hryvnias.
