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01 July 2020Egmont Group Webinars on FinTech with a focus on Virtual Assets/Virtual Assets Service Providers and Mobile Payment Services
When adopting the 2018-2021 Strategic Plan, the Heads of Egmont Group FIUs acknowledged the positive potential of new technologies (e.g. FinTech) and monetary instruments (e.g. crypto-currencies) in changing the financial landscape. Unregulated sectors and actors operating in the virtual space, for which little is known about their modus operandi and their impact on ML/TF activities, deploy effective means of hiding the identity of individuals involved in financial transactions. To address with this new reality, FIUs must understand these factors and their impact on future financial flows
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30 June 2020Security Council published the joint report of the Counter Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate and the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team on actions taken by Member States to disrupt terrorism financing
EAG Member States took an active part in preparing information to the questionnaires on measures, good practices and challenges encountered by Member States in their implementation of international counter-financing of terrorism standards
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30 June 2020Outcomes FATF Virtual Plenary, 24 June 2020
Paris, 24 June 2020 – FATF President Xiangmin Liu chaired the third and last Plenary meeting under the Chinese Presidency. As the world continues to grapple with the devastating human and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the FATF held this Plenary meeting as a virtual event due to lockdown measures and travel restrictions
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23 June 2020The EAG Plenary meeting approved the Methodology of ML/TF risk assessment in the Eurasian region and methods of information collection (questionnaires)
The developed Methodology describes a common conceptual framework for all countries participating in the project, a methodological approach to regional risk assessment, including phases and methods of information collection
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19 June 2020The results of the 32nd EAG Plenary Meeting
On June 19, 2020 the 32nd Plenary meeting of the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (EAG) was held in virtual format
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18 June 2020Sentence for terrorist financing was pronounced in Russian Federation
The South District Military Court of Russian Federation 17.06.2020 sentenced a person who committed terrorist financing
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05 June 2020EAG Secretariat organized and took part in the meeting between the Committee of financial monitoring of the Ministry of finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan and representatives of the EAG member-states
A meeting via videoconferencing was held by the EAG Secretariat, with participation of representatives of EAG member-states (Belarus, Kyrgyz Republic, Russia and Tajikistan) and the management of the Committee on financial monitoring of the Ministry of finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan
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04 June 2020Sentence for terrorist financing was pronounced in Russian Federation
The South District Military Court of Russian Federation sentenced a person committed terrorist financing
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01 June 2020EAG Secretariat took part in the international scientific and practical conference, organized by the Academy of General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan
EAG Secretariat staff members took part by videoconference connection in the international scientific and practical conference “Increasing educational potential in law enforcement activity: modern challenges and solutions”, organized by the Academy of General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated to the second anniversary of its foundation
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28 May 2020The procedure for receiving gratuitous aid was improved in Belarus
The President of the Republic of Belarus on May 25, 2020 signed the Decree No. 3 “On foreign gratuitous aid”