November 22, 2023
The Council of Heads of CIS Financial Intelligence Units, CIS Anti-Terrorism Center and an International Training and Methodological Center for Financial Monitoring organized a seminar on “Topical trends of the Global Anti-Money Laundering and Countering of Terrorism Financing System” in Minsk on November 21-22, 2023.
The event was attended by the representatives of the competent authorities and financial intelligence units of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, Council of FIU Heads, ITMCFM, EAG, CIS Executive Committee and CIS ATC.
The first day of the seminar focused exchange of best practices and lessons learned in AML/CFT related to assessment of risks of terrorism financing with use of financial tools. Besides, the participants reviewed topical trends of detecting virtual assets used in illegal activities.
The Center’s representative presented a report on evaluation of the situation in countering terrorism and extremism in the CIS area and its projected developments.
The second day of the event included a practical training in the form of a simulation exercise covering a presentation of the Russian practice of countering terrorism financing and use of the Grafus training system.
