The number of suspicious virtual asset transaction reports in South Korea for the first eight months of this year has exceeded the total for the past two years.

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BlockBeats news, on September 22, according to the data from the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of South Korea, from January to August 2025, the number of suspicious transaction reports (STR) submitted by South Korean virtual asset service providers reached 36,684, exceeding the total of the past two years (35,734). Data from the Customs Service shows that from 2021 to August 2025, the total scale of virtual asset-related criminal cases transferred to the prosecution reached 9.56 trillion won (approximately 6.8 billion USD), with underground remittance cases accounting for 90.2%. In May of this year, South Korea uncovered an illegal cross-border remittance case conducted via USDT, amounting to 57.1 billion won (approximately 4.088 million USD).

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