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  • 07 February 2020

    Mutual Evaluation Report (MER) of the Republic of Belarus

    In November 2019 the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (EAG) approved the Executive Summary and the Mutual Evaluation Report (MER) of the Republic of Belarus, which analyses the effectiveness of the national AML/CFT system and technical compliance with the FATF Standards, as well as contains recommendations on further improvement of the national AML/CFT system. The MER passed the quality and consistency process with FATF and confirmed to be in line with international standards

  • 29 January 2020

    Finance Minister of Kazakhstan appointed Zhanat Elimanov Chairman of the Committee on Financial Monitoring of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan

    Executive Secretary of the Finance Ministry of Kazakhstan E. Jamaubaev introduced 28 January 2020 the new chairman to the Committee staff. During the introduction, the Executive Secretary praised the former leadership for restructuring the agency, while emphasizing the need for further efforts to bolster the fight against ML/TF

  • 29 January 2020

    Egmont Working Group Meetings 2020

    This year’s Egmont Group Working Group and Egmont Committee Meetings 2020 is taking place from January 27th to 30th in Mauritius. Financial Intelligence Unit Mauritius (FIU-Mauritius) is generously hosting event participants, international partners and observers

  • 12 January 2020

    FATF Supervisors’ Forum on supervising virtual assets – Paris, France, 9 January 2020

    Paris, France, 10 January 2020 - On 9 January 2020, supervisors from around the world met to discuss how to supervise and regulate virtual assets and virtual asset service providers (VASPs). This meeting was the first opportunity for supervisors to discuss how to implement these new measures since the FATF finalised them in June 2019

  • 13 December 2019

    Proliferation Financing Workshop

    The joint EAG/FATF TRAIN/ITMCFM proliferation-financing workshop was held in Moscow on 9-12 December 2019

  • 10 December 2019

    Outcome of MONEYVAL's 59th Plenary meeting

    The Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism (MONEYVAL) held its 59th Plenary meeting in Strasbourg from 2 to 6 December 2019. 320 participants from MONEYVAL’s 36 member states and jurisdictions (as well as observer states and organisations) attended the Plenary

  • 09 December 2019

    CTED assessment visit

    The EAG Secretariat took part in the CTED delegation's assessment visit to Kyrgyzstan on 2-5 December 2019

  • 05 December 2019

    A workshop for the assessed country

    From 2 to 4 December 2019, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan hosted an EAG workshop for the assessed country  

  • 29 November 2019

    The results of the 31st EAG Plenary Meeting

    The Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (EAG) held its 31st Plenary meeting and meetings of Working Groups in Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) on November 25-29, 2019

  • 15 November 2019

    About the results of the workshop-training for assessors (practitioners) of the Eurasian group on combating money laundering and financing of terrorism (EAG) member-states

    A workshop-training on "Assessing the effectiveness, experience and best practices of ML investigation in the Eurasian region" was held in the city of Tashkent (Republic of Uzbekistan) from 11 to 15 November 2019. Together with the EAG and the General's Prosecutor Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the workshop was organized by the OSCE, UNODC and the ITMCMF