The representatives of the Eurasian group took part in the OSCE and UNDOC conference

The event passed in Vienna on 3-4 October 2011 and was dedicated to the issues of money laundering related to human trafficking.

The organizers of the conference – the Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and thecUnited Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) are the EAG observers and partners in holding a number of training workshops.

The examples of the international cooperation in the framework of the EAG, particularly, conducting the typology in the field of ML/FT risks from illegal migration and human trafficking, which results are planned to discuss at the joint seminar of the Eurasian group and the Asia/Pacific group (APG) in 2013, were presented to the participants.

The issue of the necessity of adopting the measures to combat money laundering related to this sphere became one of the priority at the conference. In the course of the event special attention was drawn to the problem of the transparency of the financial flaws.

It was indicated, that active use of cash for transactions through the channels of non-banking systems makes the exposure of the crimes connected with money laundering more difficult. In this connection, financial flaws stay “transparent” for the financial intelligence units.
The participants of the discussion called the law enforcement bodies, financial intelligence units, financial institutions and supervisory bodies for international cooperation in addressing this problem.

The discussions held in the framework of the round table with the representatives of the CIS countries, indicated to the necessity of the enhanced coordination of the law enforcement bodies and financial intelligence units (FIUs). In connection to this, the problem of money laundering related to human trafficking and illegal migration could be the subject of activities of the Council of the Heads of the CIS FIUs in the interaction with other branch-wise bodies of the CIS.