Contact information
This page contains links to contact details that may be useful if you need more information on the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing
Do you suspect money laundering?
If you are an obliged entity, you must immediately notify the Financial Intelligence Unit of any suspicious business activity or suspected terrorist financing.
You can submit the notification electronically with the reporting application. In special cases, the notification can be submitted over another kind of encrypted connection or by secure procedure.
Give feedback
Send us your feedback about this website:
Contact information
Please note that confidential matters must be sent via encrypted email.
Organisations participating in countering money laundering and terrorism:
Ministry of Finance and Ministry of the Interior
The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of the Interior are the ministries responsible for the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing.
Media and Communications Unit of the Ministry of Finance
Communications Unit of the Ministry of the Interior
Financial Intelligence Unit
The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) prevents, detects and investigates money laundering and terrorist financing, and refers cases to criminal investigation.
The FIU receives, processes and analyses suspicious transaction reports made by entities obliged to report money laundering and terrorist financing, and disseminates relevant information to other competent authorities in Finland.
Contact information for the Financial Intelligence Unit
Read more about the Financial Intelligence Unit
The Financial Supervisory Authority
Finanssivalvonta, or the Financial Supervisory Authority (FIN-FSA), is the authority for supervision of Finland’s financial and insurance sectors. The entities supervised by the authority include banks, insurance and pension companies as well as other companies operating in the insurance sector, investment firms, fund management companies and the Helsinki Stock Exchange. The entities are obliged to know their customers’ business, detect and examine suspicious transactions, and report any such suspicions to the FIN-FSA and the Financial Intelligence Unit.
Contact information for the Financial Supervisory Authority
Finnish Bar Association
The Finnish Bar Association informs attorneys-at-law about the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing. It also supervises all attorneys-at-law. The supervision is performed by a lawyer at the Association, who also performs annual office inspections of attorneys-at-law throughout the country.
Finnish Bar Association contact information
Finnish Border Guard
In all its activities the Finnish Border Guard remains alert to any indications of money laundering.
Finnish Border Guard contact information
Finnish Customs
Customs controls transports of cash and thereby prevents money laundering and financing of terrorism. Furthermore, the activities by Customs are aimed at preventing and investigating money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
Contact information for Finnish Customs
Finnish Patent and Registration Office
The Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH) registers the beneficial owner details of companies in the Finnish Trade Register and discloses details from the register for purposes referred to in the Finnish Act on Money Laundering. We instruct your company or organisation to update the beneficial owner details if a party subject to the reporting obligation, a supervisory authority or the Finnish Bar Association informs us about any deficiencies or inconsistencies in the details. We also monitor that auditors observe the obligations laid down in the Act on Money Laundering.
Contact details of the Finnish Patent and Registration Office
Finnish Tax Administration
At the Finnish Tax Administration the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing is taken into account not only in supervisory measures but also in preventative work. Public authorities engaged in combating money laundering may request obligation compliance reports form the Finnish Tax Administration's Grey Economy Information Unit.
Contact the Finnish Tax Administration’s communication staff via its media service (in Finnish)
Finnish Tax Administration on social media (in Finnish)
Information on the grey economy and economic crime
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Ministry for Foreign Affairs is the competent authority in the matters concerning international sanctions
Contact information for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Justice
The Ministry of Justice is responsible for the provisions of Criminal Code governing money laundering.
Contact information for the Ministry of Justice
National Police Board
Compliance of the gambling services company Veikkaus Oy and its agents with the anti-money laundering legislation is supervised by the National Police Board. The supervision work is conducted by the Board's Gambling Administration.
The National Police Board is responsible for notifying the Financial Intelligence Unit about its supervision activities and about any suspicious transactions otherwise detected in the course of performing its duties, or if its suspects terrorist financing. Investigation of any suspected crimes is the job of the police.
Read more about the National Police Board (in Finnish)
Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland
The Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland monitors enforcement of the Act on Preventing Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing and the regulations stemming from it on a national level. It is the task of the Regional State Administrative Agency to ensure that those under the agency’s supervision who are required to report violations follow the obligations set in the anti-Money Laundering Act.
Contact information for the Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland