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Regular meeting of the Permanent Interdepartmental Commission on AML, Combating the Terrorism Financing and Financing of Mass Destruction Weapons Proliferation
On April 25, 2025, the Regular meeting of the Permanent Interdepartmental Commission on AML, Combating Terrorism Financing and Financing of the Mass Destruction Weapons Proliferation (AML/CFT/CPF) was held under the leadership of Alizada Zarif, Assistant to the President of the Republic of Tajikistan on Legal Issues (Chairman of the Commission), with the participation of representatives of the relevant departments of the country.
The Head of the Commission, taking into account the latest changes made to the recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which mainly affected the activities of government regulatory and supervisory authorities in the field of AML/CFT/CPF, noted the need to coordinate efforts aimed at bringing the country's national system into compliance, as well as fulfilling the requirements of these recommendations.
It was noted that despite the progress made since the second round of the country's assessment in the implementing FATF standards, during the third round the assessment requirements will be strengthened and the FATF recommendations (2023-2024) will be reevaluated. The third-round assessment for the Republic of Tajikistan is scheduled for 2026.
During the meeting, issues related to the implementation of decisions stated in the Minutes of the previous meeting of the Commission, the second Report on the national risk assessment of AML/CFT/CPF in the Republic of Tajikistan, the Report on the risk assessment of legal entities and legal units in the field of AML/CFT in the Republic of Tajikistan, the exchange of information between the Financial Monitoring Department under the National Bank of Tajikistan and law enforcement agencies as well as issues related to sanctions lists, including the national list and the list of the CIS Anti-Terrorism Center were considered, and these reports were approved.
It was emphasized that the approval of the country's second report on the national risk assessment (recommendation 1 - risk assessment and risk-based approach) and the first report on the assessment of legal entities and legal units in the field of combating money laundering (recommendations 24 - transparency and beneficial owners of legal entities and 25 - transparency and beneficial owners of legal units) contributes to improving the country's position in the rating for these recommendations.
During the discussion of the meeting program, in order to prepare the Republic of Tajikistan for the third round of mutual evaluation of the national AML/CFT/CPF system, it was decided to develop an Action Plan in cooperation with the relevant ministries and departments and submit it to the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan.
In conclusion, the head of the Commission congratulated all participants of the meeting on the 80th anniversary of the Day of Victory over fascism - as a symbol of honoring the feat of our fathers and called on everyone to fulfill their official duties with greater responsibility.
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25.04.2025