I was browsing the IRS website looking for a form and stumbled across these forms, used by financial institutions for reporting suspicious transactions.

Suspicious activity reports (also called SARs, which sounds like a disease) and currency tranaction reports are mandated for certain transactions by the Bank Secrecy Act.  The only secrecy involved in the Bank Secrecy Act is that the bank is forbidden from telling you that they are telling on you.  All of the information on these forms is input into the FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) computer, and reports are available to all law enforcement agencies.

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/ffc105.pdf - this form is used for international transportation of currency or monetary instruments
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/ffc101.pdf - this SAR is used by the securities and futures industries
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/ffc101a.pdf - this is the explanatory bulletin for the securities and futures industry SARs
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/ffc102.pdf - this SAR is used by casinos and card clubs
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/ffc102a.pdf - this is the instruction bulletin for the casino and card club SAR form
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/ffc103n.pdf - this SAR form is used by casinos in Nevada
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/ffc103.pdf - this is the currency transaction report used by casinos
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/ffc104.pdf - this is the standard currency transaction report

I didn't see any forms or instruction booklets for Suspicious Activity Reports generated by banks.



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