After years of neglect, it appears that Human Smuggling financing is a priority to government agencies. Human Smuggling Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) filed by MSBs have skyrocketed since mid-2021 while banks' filings have remained flat. FinCEN issued then deleted a Human Smuggling Alert on 12/16/2022.
SARs
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Reporting, discovering, and researching drug trafficking SARs is hindered by the lack of a drug trafficking SAR checkbox.
DSA identified key trends in foreign corruption and kleptocracy Suspicious Activity Reports filed between January 2019 and March 2022.