Draft treaty of CIS states on combatting money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation of mass destruction weapons approved in Belarus

Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus No. 325 of August, 31, 2020 approved as a basis for negotiations the draft Treaty of the Commonwealth of Independent States on combating legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime, financing of terrorism and financing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

This document is to replace acting agreement of the year 2007 on combatting money laundering and terrorist financing.

The purpose of the document is to coordinate CIS states activity and to join efforts on combatting money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation of mass destruction weapons.

The draft document was prepared by Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitiring) and preliminarily worked out with other states of the Сommonwealth.

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