Finantsinspektsioon (Estonian Financial Supervision and Resolution Authority) and the Estonian Financial Intelligence Unit have signed an agreement detailing the cooperation between the two institutions on preventing money laundering and terrorism financing and the circumvention of international…

Today, Matis Mäeker takes office as the Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit. For the last 10 years, Mäeker has been working in Finantsinspektsioon (Estonian Financial Supervision and Resolution Authority), since January 2019 as the Head of AML/CFT Department.

The yearbook of the Financial Intelligence Unit brings out that in 2020, the use of new technologies such as crypto currencies and VIBAN accounts in international money laundering schemes and financial crimes increased, as did the exploitation of crowdfunding platforms by scammers.