December 11, 2024
The CIS ATC, FIU-CIS, EAG and ITMCFM organized a joint seminar on "Raising awareness about the activities of terrorist groups in the region, methods and techniques used to finance their activities with due regard for development of modern payment instruments" in Dushanbe, Republic of Tajikistan on December 10-11, 2024.
The event was attended by representatives of the competent authorities of the CIS member-states (the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan), CIS bodies (BKBOP, Council of Law Enforcement Units of Council of Heads of Customs Services) and the CSTO Secretariat.
The seminar participants analyzed practical steps for identifying and recording crimes committed with use of cryptocurrencies. The participants held a business game aimed at training how to use open Internet sources for the purpose of analyzing cryptocurrency transactions, and exchanged information on threats posed by activities of terrorist groups and national experience in countering those threats.
