November 11, 2022
The Commonwealth of Independent States Anti-Terrorism Center in cooperation with International Training and Methodological Center of Financial Monitoring, Eurasian group on combating money laundering and financing of terrorism (EAG) and Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) conducted a seminar on "Topical Issues of Countering Financing of Terrorism" and a training course for the officers of law-enforcement authorities and financial intelligence units of the CIS member-states on November 9-11, 2022 in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic.
The seminar discussed burning issues of countering financing of terrorism, including identification of risks in this sphere related to migration flow of refugees from Afghanistan and foreign-terrorist fighters as well as use of non-profit organisations in unlawful purpose.
The participants were acquainted with the practice of the Commonwealth States in identification of the persons relocating the areas of terrorist activities, participating in terrorism financing, as well as standards and best practices of Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) related to the work with non-profit organisations as well as contemporary methods of informational countermeasures.
The organized business game offered an opportunity to demonstrate capacities of the educational system of financial investigations Grafus which was developed by Rosfinmonitoring and ITMCFM and allows simulation of financial investigations.
The three-day event was attended by representatives of the competent authorities of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Serbia, India, as well as UN Office on Drugs and Crimes, UN Office for Counter-Terrorism, Center for Political Studies of the Financial University at the Government of the Russian Federation.
