On 37th Plenary Meeting of the Eurasian Group on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Terrorism Financing (EAG)

From November 21 to 25, 2022, the 37th Plenary meeting of the Eurasian Group on anti-money laundering and combating terrorism financing (EAG) was held in Dushanbe. 

On November 21-22, the Working teams of this institution such as the Working Team on mutual evaluation and legal issues, the Working Team on typologies and combating terrorism financing and the Working Team on technical assistance have discussed the issues related to their scope of work.

As part of the meetings of the Working teams, the issues related to amendments to the process of the second round of EAG mutual evaluation, reports of the Republic of Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and the People's Republic of China, the mechanism for monitoring of operational situation in the EAG member countries on existing and potential risks, adaption and collection of previous research of the EAG, exchange of experience, process of typological study and experience of automating analytical works, amendments to be made to the Regulations for holding plenary sessions and meetings of working teams as well as other issues were discussed by the parties. 

At the same time, the implementation of the Law of the Republic of Tajikistan "On amnesty due to legalization of assets and funds of citizens of the Republic of Tajikistan" was also discussed and it was supported thanks to its compliance with the assigned requirements and comprehensive monitoring of fund collection and timely submission of information in this direction.

Also, during the EAG Plenary session’s week on November 23, the first Forum of representatives of parliaments of the EAG member countries was held and Shohmurod Rustam, Head of Legal Procedures, Defense and Security Committee, Majlisi Namoyandagon of Majlisi Oli of the Republic of Tajikistan has participated and addressed the Forum. 

Also, the 21st meeting of the Heads of Financial Intelligence Units Council of member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States was held on the same day. 

On November 24 and 25, the 37th Plenary meeting of the Eurasian Group on anti-money laundering and combating terrorism financing was held, where the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tajikistan, honorable Usmonzoda Usmonali has made an opening speech.

The delegation of the Republic of Tajikistan headed by Alizoda Zarif, Assistant to the President of the Republic of Tajikistan on legal issues has participated in the event and discussed the agenda of the event. 

It should be noted that EAG is one of the FATF-style regional groups (Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering) established in 2004. The main purpose of this group is to contribute to the strengthening of national system of Anti-money laundering, combating terrorism financing and financing of proliferation of mass destruction weapons in the member countries and the region, 9 countries: the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, People's Republic of China and India are its members.

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