OSCE organizes regional seminar on combating money laundering and financing of terrorism in Tashkent
An OSCE-supported five-day regional seminar for expert-evaluators of member countries of the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing (EAG) started on 11 December 2017 in Tashkent.
The event gathered government representatives from the member countries of the EAG including Belarus, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
The training course featured interactive and practical learning modules on how to evaluate a country’s compliance with the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) 40 recommendations. It was conducted by international experts on anti-money laundering and countering financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) from the International Training and Methodology Centre for Financial Monitoring.
“Today’s event is one of the many organized in the framework of co-operation between our organizations - the OSCE and EAG,” said Ambassador John MacGregor, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan. “We are happy to collaborate once again with this important organization in the area of capacity building. We hope our joint efforts will contribute to the strengthening of AML/CFT regimes in the states of both our organizations.”
The seminar was organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan together with the Financial Intelligence Unit of Uzbekistan and the EAG.