FinCEN Files: The Documents
These are some of the documents BuzzFeed News used for the FinCEN Files investigation.
Below are the documents that BuzzFeed News has released as part of its global investigation into financial crime. They include suspicious activity reports and an Intelligence Assessment from the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN.
Suspicious activity reports are not in and of themselves evidence of a crime, but they can support investigations and intelligence gathering. The FinCEN Files investigation relies on thousands of documents, but BuzzFeed News is releasing only those relevant to certain reported articles. Portions have been redacted.
These documents are related to the following articles:
He Was At The Heart Of Two Of The Biggest Dirty Money Scandals In History. These Are His Secrets.
The Untold Story Of What Really Happened After HSBC, El Chapo's Bank, Promised To Get Clean
A Russian Billionaire With Close Ties To Putin Made Suspicious Payments To Nobu
- Banks Flagged Felix Sater for $100 Million In Suspicious Activity
- Michael Flynn’s Bank Raised Alarms On Transactions, But Only After Trump Fired Him
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