News
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28 January 2010
Memorandum of understanding signed between the EAG and the CCACD CSTO
On January 28 the EAG Chairman, Aide to the President of the Russian Federation Mr. Oleg Markov and Director of the Federal Drug Control Service, Chairman of the Coordinating council of the heads of the competent authorities on combating drug trafficking (CCACD) of the member states of the Collective security treaty organization (CSTO) Mr. Viktor Ivanov signed a Memorandum of understanding between the EAG and the CCACD CSTO
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18 January 2010
Financial Intelligence Unit created in Turkmenistan
A Financial Intelligence Unit was created under the Turkmenistani Ministry of Finance. Its activities will be aimed at combating money laundering in the framework of the national AML/CFT legislation
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09 December 2009
Public statement on the 11-th EAG Plenary
December 7-9, 2009 the EAG Working Group meetings and 11th EAG Plenary were held in Guilin, China
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07 December 2009
AG Working Group meetings were held in Guilin, China
On December 7 the EAG Working Groups on Mutual Evaluation and Legal Issues (WGEL), Typologies (WGTYP), Technical Assistance (WGTA) and Ad hoc Working group on operational guidance on the implementation of FATF Recommendations in EAG member states, met in Guilin (China) in order to discuss the following issues
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03 December 2009
On December 7-9, 2009 the 11th EAG Plenary alongside the Working group meetings will be held in Guilin (China)
The Plenary meeting will be chaired by the EAG Chairman, Aide to the President of the Russian Federation Mr. Oleg Markov
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05 November 2009
Russian and Ukrainian training centres agree on cooperation
November 5, 2009 the International Training and Methodology Centre for Financial Monitoring (ITMCFM), founded by Rosfinmonitoring, and Training-methodical centre of State Committee for Financial Monitoring of Ukraine signed an agreement for cooperation
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03 November 2009
November 2-3, the AML/CFT supervision workshop was held in Kishinev (Moldova)
Experts from the Central Bank of Russia and National banks of Moldova and Ukraine participated in the workshop alongside those from the EAG FIUs, the Council of Europe, banking community and international development banks including the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Eurasian Development Bank
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20 October 2009
A financial intelligence unit was created in Tajikistan
October 20, 2009 the President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomalii Rahmon signed Order № 724 on creating an FIU under the National Bank of Tajikistan – the Financial Monitoring Department
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19 October 2009
The EAG Executive Secretary Igor Nebyvaev took part in the FATF Working Group meetings and Plenary Meeting which was held in Paris (France) on October 12-16
The FATF experts discussed their report to the G-20 focused on the analysis of the global financial crisis consequences and mitigating the damage from financial violations
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07 October 2009
Inter-sessional EAG meeting, dedicated to the 5th anniversary, was held on October 6-7 in Moscow (Russia)
The meeting was presided over by the EAG Chairman and Aide to the President of Russia Oleg Markov. Among the participants of the meeting were heads and other representatives of the financial intelligence units, law-enforcement and supervisory authorities of the EAG member states (Belarus, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan), as well as representatives of the EAG observer states and organizations including Italy, the USA, Ukraine, the Eurasian Economic Community, Collective Security Treaty Organization and Eurasian Development Bank