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SAR Initiates Case that Leads to Guilty Pleas for Hiring Illegal Aliens
In a case initiated from SARs, Federal agents uncovered two businesses that were hiring illegal aliens in order to provide skilled and unskilled labor services to area warehouses. The businesses then paid the illegal aliens in cash, with funds withdrawn by the president and office manager in…
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SAR Review Team Identifies Gift Shop Operating as an Unregistered Money Services Business
A Suspicious Activity Report review team identified SARs filed by three different financial institutions within several months on the same subject, describing similar transactions involving structuring and the wire transfer of funds to an Eastern European country (Country A).According to…
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Local Municipality Case Example (Narcotics Trafficking, Money Laundering, and Mortgage Fraud)
In early 2012, FinCEN conducted outreach to all of its state and local law enforcement partners, and asked for cases where FinCEN data played a useful role in their investigations. Below, in their own words, is an example of how FinCEN's stakeholders use FinCEN data. It has been edited only for…