December 2020 – FINTRAC-2020-OA001
The purpose of this Operational Alert is to support reporting entities in recognizing financial transactions suspected of being related to the laundering of funds associated to child sexual exploitation, particularly online child sexual exploitation.
Through financial transaction reports, FINTRAC is able to facilitate the detection, prevention and deterrence of all stages of money laundering (placement, layering and integration) and the financing of terrorist activities by providing actionable financial intelligence disclosures to law enforcement and national security agencies. This Operational Alert provides money laundering indicators as a result of the analysis of FINTRAC disclosures and Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) related to online child sexual exploitation.