IR-01-26-9102
23 March 2026
Marcus
[FYI request #34058 email]
Dear Marcus,
Information Request
I refer to your Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) request dated 13 March 2026, in which you
requested the fol owing information:
I would be interested in a table containing an anonymised count of (Suspicious Activity
Reports) and PTRs (Prescribed Transaction Reports) received for the past 3 years.
Specifical y, it would be nice to have this broken down by the number of reporting
banks, with their details anonymised. I'm mainly curious around whether SARs/PTRs
are reported evenly.
This would also presumably exclude those banks that are part of the Designated
Business Group as mentioned on Page 36 of the FIU's New Zealand National Risk
Assessment 2024.
Please see the below Table 1 which lists volumes of Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR),
Suspicious Transaction Reports (STR) and Prescribed Transaction Reports (PTR) from banks
for the combined 2023, 2024 and 2025 calendar years.
Table 1:
Reporting Entity:
SARs
STRs
PTRs
A
127
19885
19487
B
57
2888
56165
C
1
1
764
D
5
36
575
E
1
1
79
F
-
1
723
G
108
3416
8262
H
5
2
1450
I
-
-
6
J
-
13
3701
K
7
22
1204
L
15
58
1460
M
36
1431
1179
N
39
2878
3419
O
-
5
758
P
-
-
751
Q
10
79
723
Police National Headquarters
180 Molesworth Street. PO Box 3017, Wellington 6140, New Zealand.
Telephone: 04 474 9499. Fax: 04 498 7400. www.police.govt.nz
R
13
225
7970
S
37
130
561
T
2
35
7561
U
28
309
45646
V
47
3281
4897
TOTALS:
538
34696
167341
Yours sincerely,
Daniel Frost
Manager – Financial Intel igence Unit
Financial Crime Group
New Zealand Police