OSCE and UN Office on Drugs and Crime train Tajik officials to disrupt terrorist financing

A four-day training course on disrupting the financing of terrorist networks concluded on 28 February 2020 in Dushanbe. The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe, in co-operation with UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s Regional Office for Central Asia and the OSCE Secretariat’s Transnational Threats Department/Action against Terrorism Unit organized the course.

Seventeen Tajik experts and practitioners from the General Prosecutor’s Office, the Financial Monitoring Department of the National Bank of Tajikistan, the Ministry of the Interior, and the State Committee for National Security of the Republic of Tajikistan attended the seminar.

The training course aimed to assist Tajikistan in implementing international standards, in particular UN Security Council Resolutions, the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering’s recommendations, OSCE, and UN commitments. The course emphasized the key role of inter-agency co-operation in disrupting terrorist financing.

Trainers familiarized the participants with complex analytical and operational planning methods by focusing on localized scenarios based on real-life cases.

“In addition to interagency co-operation this course provides a unique platform for professionals to explore new instruments and techniques to counter terrorist financing, while underlying the importance of having investigations abide by international human rights norms and standards,” said Florian Razesberger, Head of the OSCE Programme Office’s Politico-Military Department in Dushanbe.

The course was organized as part of a comprehensive multi-annual capacity-building programme to support national efforts to counter terrorist financing in Central Asia and built on the Programme Office’s multi-year efforts to counter terrorism, money laundering and terrorist financing.