Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many criminal investigations into financial sanctions evasion have been initiated on the basis of Suspicious Activity Reports received by the Financial Intelligence Unit since February 2022.

Breaches of UK sanctions are reportable to the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), not via the SARs regime, unless there are associated suspicions around money laundering.

For reasons of operational security, we are not able to provide further details publicly.