Azerbaijan, Baku, Jan. 17 / Trend A.Akhundov /
The Financial Monitoring Service of the Azerbaijani Central Bank (CBA) received 26,566 facts on suspicious and current operations in December, a statistical report of the Service said today.
In 2012, the service received 260,000 data on incidents compared to 280,000 as of late 2011.
The service database expanded in December by 11.4 per cent compared to late November.
The service received 19,254 facts in January, 18,405 in February, 17,958 in March, 22,373 in April, 22,431 in May, 20,820 in June, 19,985 in July, 18,574 in August, 18,024 in September, 28,091 in October, 27,386 in November and 26,566 in December.
Monitoring of the service covers the activities of credit, insurance and reinsurance organisations, professional participants of the securities market, pawnshops, investment funds, transactions with precious metals and stones and purchase of products thereof, activities of NGOs and religious organisations, organisers of lotteries, individuals providing services of sales of immovable property, as well as lawyers, accountants, real estate transactions, client money, securities and property, client banking and deposit accounts.
The Financial Monitoring Service under the CBA was established on February 23, 2009.