The organizers of the event are the International Educational and Methodological Center for Financial Monitoring (the basic organization of the Council of Heads of Financial Intelligence Units of the CIS member States) and the Financial Monitoring Department of the State Control Committee of the Republic of Belarus.
The seminar is attended by representatives of financial intelligence units of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, employees of state bodies of the Republic of Belarus, as well as employees and heads of non-profit organizations of the Republic of Belarus, the press service of the CIS Executive Committee reports.
In the course of their work, experts consider risks and vulnerabilities in the sector of non-profit organizations, as well as discuss measures to protect against their use for terrorist financing, focusing on the experience that has been implemented in the CIS member states.
The CIS Executive Committee was represented at the event by Igor Malashevich, Adviser to the Department for Security Cooperation and Countering New Challenges and Threats. In his speech, he stressed the role of the SRDFR in organizing cooperation between financial intelligence units and its effective interaction with other bodies of sectoral cooperation of the CIS.
Igor Malashevich highlighted the work of the SRPF as a developer of the most important international legal documents within the CIS, in particular, the Agreement of the CIS member States signed on October 15, 2021 on countering the legalization (Laundering) of Proceeds from Crime, the financing of terrorism and the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
At the initiative of the Council, a draft agreement on the establishment of an International Center for Risk Assessment of the Legalization (Laundering) of Proceeds from Crime and the Financing of Terrorism has been submitted to the CIS Executive Committee for further work on it. The speaker also gave examples of the effective work of the International Training and Methodological Center for Financial Monitoring as a basic organization and once again thanked its management for this.
