On 12 – 15 July 2011 Working groups and Plenary meetings of the Egmont Group passed in Erevan (Armenia)

Delegations of EAG member-states took part in the work of the Plenary.

On the results of the meeting EAG member-states, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, joined the Egmont group. The Russian Federation performed one of the sponsors of this procedure. Currently, two more EAG member-states, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, are being considered to become the Egmont group members.

Trainings and workshops devoted to the priority activities of the Egmont group, particularly, to the AML/CFT problem in the field of transborder transfers, corruption and asset recovery, and also to the problem of money laundering in the sphere of new methods of payments passed in the framework of the meetings.

Russia presented the information about the next, 20th anniversary meeting of the Egmont group which would be held in St. Petersburg.

Information about the Egmont group

Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units – a number of financial Intelligence units that currently has 127 membrers.

The goal of the group is to provide a platform for the FIUs to improve support to their respective national AML programs and liaison for the sharing of information. The Egmont group members obtain the opportunity to share information quickly and in protected regime at the special web-site of the Egmont group.