The seminar on the national risk assesment in the sphere of money laundering was held in Astana (Republic of Kazakhstan) on October 10-12, 2011

The seminar was organised by the Committee on Financial Monitoring of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the World Bank.

The employees of the state bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan, carrying out activities on combating money laundering and financing of terrorism, the World Bank experts and representatives of the International training and methodology center for financial monitoring took part in the seminar.

The methodology and models for national risk assessment were considered in the course of the seminar, as well as a set of data necessary for the identification of threats and assessment of risks of money laundering were defined. Also the working groups, responsible for conducting the evaluation, were formed.