EAG/OSCE/FIU Uzbekistan joint workshop on National Risk Assessment, September 22-23, 2014

September 22-23, 2014 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, held a joint EAG/OSCE/FIU Uzbekistan workshop on National Risk Assessment of money laundering and terrorist financing.

The workshop was attended by experts from the FIUs of Kazakhstan, Italy and Serbia, who shared their experiences of the national risk assessment.

The purpose of the event was to analyze and discuss the requirements of international standards for risk assessment, namely, FATF Recommendation 1 rated technical compliance and a direct result of evaluation of the effectiveness, as well as to lay the beginning of a NRA process in Uzbekistan.

The workshop addressed issues directly related to the NRA process, representatives of various ministries and departments of Uzbekistan discussed the best practices of implementation of the results of risk assessment and NRA data collection.