All Reporting entities are required under the AMLCFTA and Regulations to submit SARs to the Financial Intelligence Unit.
A reporting entity is any business or person whose regular occupation is the carrying on of:
(a) Any activity listed in the First Schedule. These are:
A reporting entity must pay special attention to all complex, unusual or large business transactions, whether completed or not and to all unusual patterns of transactions and to insignificant but periodic transactions which have no apparent economic or lawful purpose.
Upon a reasonable suspicion that the transaction described above may constitute or relate to money laundering, proceeds of crime or terrorist financing, a reporting entity must promptly report the suspicious transaction to the Financial Intelligence Unit.
Where the reporting entity is a money transfer agency, it must report any money transfer over two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.00).
Where the reporting entity is a cambio it must report any purchase over four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000.00); sale over one million dollars ($1,000,000.00); and any cash transaction over two million dollars ($2,000,000.00).