The German Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt – BKA) presented the Annual Report 2009 of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) Germany according to which last year a total of 9,046 suspicious transaction reports were filed pursuant to the German Money Laundering Act (Geldwäschegesetz – GwG).

Compared with the previous year (2008: 7,349 reports), this [...]