Total of 23,422 suspicious transactions last year

Financial institutions reported 23,422 suspicious financial transactions to the Revenue and gardaí in 2018, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has confirmed.

He said the most recent figures by value for 2018 will be published in May, but in a written Dáil reply to Independent TD Clare Daly, Mr Donohoe said the 2017 yield to Revenue from audit cases involving so-called suspicious transaction reports (STRs) came to €5.5m.