Peru's Superintendency of Banking, Insurance and Private Pension Funds (SBS), through its Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) and with support from Swiss Cooperation, inaugurated the sixth edition of Money Laundering Prevention Week (SPLA), a free virtual programme of more than 20 conferences focused on integrity and anti-money laundering (AML) challenges. In remarks at the opening, SBS Superintendent Sergio Espinosa stressed the importance of complementing criminal sanctions against organised crime with efforts to disrupt its economic base. In a presentation on “The route of the money”, UIF Deputy Superintendent Fernanda García-Yrigoyen reported that more than 160,000 suspicious transaction reports were received from 2015 to 2025, with banks and notaries the most frequent reporters. She also said the latest national AML risk assessment ranks illegal mining as the highest risk, ahead of drug trafficking, and that over the last 12 months the amount involved in UIF financial intelligence reports linked to illegal mining as the predicate offence exceeded USD 3.345 billion. The week’s agenda covers topics including digital technologies, Big Data and machine learning in detection, cryptoassets and control measures, typologies linked to extortion and corruption, and evidentiary development in AML court proceedings, with speakers from organisations including the OECD, UNODC and GAFILAT alongside Peruvian authorities. The event is framed around the National Day for the Prevention of Money Laundering on 29 October, and SBS also held in-person outreach sessions in Puno and Madre de Dios from 20 to 24 October as a lead-in to the week.

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