Kazakhstan holds an international AML/CFT workshop in preparation for the EAG mutual evaluation

On April 7-8, 2010 an international workshop to discuss Kazakhstan's national AML/CFT system was held in Astana.

The event was organized by the Financial Monitoring Committee of the Kazakhstani Ministry of Finance in cooperation with the World Bank, UNODC, IMF and the EAG Secretariat. The main target of the workshop was to assist Kazakhstan in preparing for the EAG mutual evaluation, which will be held in July 2010.

The workshop's participants included Kazakhstan's FIU specialists and various officials from agencies combating economic crime and corruption, representatives of the the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan, General Prosecutor's Office, National Security Committee, National Bank, Customs Control Committee, Ministrу of Internal Affairs, and ministries of sports and tourism.

The workshop was opened by the Chairman of the Financial Monitoring Committee of Kazakhstan Musyraly Utebayev. Presentations were made by Klaudijo Stroligo (World Bank), Guiseppe Lombardo and Rosio Ortiz-Escario (IMF). Sergei Teterukov, the EAG Secretariat administrator, spoke on the mutual evaluation procedure and the main issues of Kazakhstan's preparation for the upcoming mission.