June 17, 2014
The signing ceremony was held on the sidelines of the 3-rd meeting of the CHFIU. The meeting was attended by the delegations of FIU member states of the Agreement on the Council formation, CIS Executive Committee, CIS Anti-Terrorism Center, Coordination Service of the Council of the Commanders of the Border Forces, Bureau to coordinate the fight against organized crime and other dangerous types of crimes on the territory of the CIS, representatives of the International Training and Methodology Center for Financial Monitoring autonomous non-commercial organization.
The Council of the Heads of Financial Intelligence Units of the CIS member-states was founded in 2012. Its main directions of activity cover organizing coordination of the financial intelligence units and other interested agencies of the CIS member-states involved into anti-money laundering/combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) activity, defining priority directions of cooperation and taking joint efficient measures, facilitating elaboration of common approaches for the purpose of approximation and harmonization of the national legislation of the states, developing proposals on improvement of the legal base for cooperation, ensuring implementation of the documents adopted in the CIS.
