How to write the perfect “Suspicious Activity Reports” (SAR)?
Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) drafted by financial institutions contain some of the most valuable information available to law enforcement agencies in the fight against financial crime. Yet, the FinCEN Files scandal of 2020 has shown that major banks have consistently failed to write and submit proper reports over the years. What can we learn from their mistakes to be able to compose the perfect SAR? In 2018, more than 2.100 SARs leaked from the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network