GOVERNMENT says cases cited in the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) Annual Report for 2022 did not occur this year alone but include those carried over from prior years. The FIC annual report for 2022 earlier revealed that the centre analysed 155 suspicious transactions worth K6.1 billion, out of which 129 cases worth K5.8 billion were disseminated to law enforcement agencies, representing a 38.92 percent increase from 2021. And clarifying the “misinformation surrounding” the said report in a statement, Wednesday, Ministry of Information and Media Permanent Secretary Kennedy Kalunga said the report indicated that FIC analysed 155 cases valued at K6.1 billion in the 2022 financial year, and not that the 155 cases occurred in 2022 alone. “Government wishes to clear...

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