BANJA LUKA, September 22 (FENA) - Banks in Republika Srpska (RS) reported 48 money laundering suspicious transactions to the Financial Intelligence Department of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) last year, totaling at KM 127 million, stated the RS Banking Agency.
The RS Banking Agency Report states that one suspicious cashless transaction amounting to KM 103.5 million was reported and was blocked for five days by order of the Financial Intelligence Department of SIPA.
Also, banks reported 31 suspicious clients for money laundering, and one of them was reported suspicious of financing terrorist activities.
Banks in the RS reported a total of 179,658 cash transactions amounted to KM 3 billion and 998 million, which is 0.46 percent of total transactions in the banking sector of that BiH entity, or 6.64 percent of the total value of transactions performed in the RS banking sector, in 2018.
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