he STRs were created as a tool to prevent money laundering. But in the last four years the number of cases sent to the Public Attorney’s Office (MP) was only a small percentage of all reports.
In 2007, 64 cases were sent to the MP, a figure that rose to around 100 in the last three years. Of those, only five resulted in prosecution and then later in convictions: one in 2007, another in 2008 and three in 2009.
