The 2021 report of the Financial Information Processing Unit (Ctif) shows a significant increase in the amount of dirty money detected in Belgium, report L’Echo, De Tijd and Knack on Saturday.
The number of denunciations to the Ctif has increased by 50% since 2020, which was a record year. At the same time, the number of files sent to justice is increasing, as is the cumulative amount of suspected fraud: +42% in one year to 2.336 billion euros, while, here too, 2020 was unprecedented.
Finally, from 2019 to 2021, the number of files transmitted related to organized crime almost doubled, for amounts almost quadrupled.
