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Financial Intelligence Units

Meaning

Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) are specialized national agencies responsible for receiving, analyzing, and disseminating financial information, particularly concerning suspicious financial transactions, to combat money laundering and the financing of illicit activities, including the trafficking of counterfeit or illegal hormonal substances. In the context of the illicit hormone trade, FIUs play a critical role by tracing the financial flows that underpin the criminal networks involved in the unauthorized manufacture and distribution of anabolic steroids and performance-enhancing peptides. Their work provides the economic evidence necessary for law enforcement intervention.