Public administration, anti-money laundering cooperation with Bankitalia falls by 60%
The number of SOS increased by 11% over 2024, reaching an all-time high, but the cooperation of local authorities in particular collapsed, from 1,264 to 520 suspicious reports, 58.9% less. The public front that can intercept anomalies on tenders, disbursements of funds and payments before they become fiscal damage is weakened
Key points
In 2025, anti-money laundering is running. Public administration, on the other hand, slows down. And this is the gap that really weighs in the numbers just released by the Financial Intelligence Unit, the anti-money laundering body of the Bank of Italy.
While the system of suspicious transaction reports (Sos) reaches an all-time high with 162,058 anti-money laundering reports (up 11.5% on 2024) worth EUR 100 billion, from financial and non-financial professionals and bodies, the collaboration of public offices crumbles, with a collapse that is not a statistical detail but an administrative-political signal.
The cooperation of the Pa
The figure is stark: the SOSs sent by the offices of the Public Administration have more than halved, from 1,264 to 520 in a year, 58.9% less. And it is not a 'technical' drop to be filed in one line: it comes as the rest of the anti-money laundering system grows, with more reports, more analysis and more sorting capacity. Translated into practical terms, the public administration seems to be falling back precisely where it should be functioning as a natural sensor: in the administrative steps where authorisations, concessions, contracts, payments, relations with companies and suppliers, and the management of public funds all pass through. If cooperation goes down, the prevention network thins out at the point where the most delicate junctions often lurk.
All the more so if one looks at the latest available data on the judgments of the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Court of Auditors, which open a window - concrete, numerical - on the illegalities within administrations and on how much the absence of anti-money laundering communications can affect them downstream.
In 2024 alone, in the matter of undue disbursement or misuse of public funds (national and European), the prosecution offices issued 271 summonses, for a total amount of EUR 277,277,455. This is an order of magnitude that says one simple thing: public money - when intercepted and distorted - generates enormous damage. And the more the warning circuit weakens, the easier it becomes for anomalies and opaque schemes to remain submerged for longer.
