Is there any public database for financial transactions

Question

I want to use the R language to do data mining for anti-money laundering. But do do this I first need a dataset of transactions.
Is such a set available?

Answer 1

IFF - Illicit Financial Flows (PDF) - Report of the High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa has money laundering data, though you'll have to pull it out of the PDF.

Search FinCen Case Examples for type of "Money Laundering" .

Financial Intelligence Unit India has reports about their cooperation with domestic and international law enforcement agencies.

Answer 2

Consider using the OCCRP Azerbaijani laundromat transactions data retrieved from Danske Bank. The data is available as json (13MB), too bad they didn't provide easy link to a compressed file.

Answer 3

Use the bitcoin log of transactions.