The Plenary Week included meetings of working groups, the 40th plenary
session of the EAG, the III Forum of Parliamentarians of the EAG member states,
the 27th meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Commonwealth of
Independent States, as well as a number of meetings and thematic events.
At the EAG Plenary Session, the participants discussed measures to combat
cross-border crime, national and international experience in identifying and
preventing topical risks and threats in the field of combating money laundering
and terrorism financing.
The participants of the
Belarusian delegation presented the experience of the law enforcement agencies
of Belarus in combating money laundering. The expert opinions of the
representatives of the State Control Committee, the National Bank, and the
Prosecutor General's Office were taken into account when making decisions
within the framework of the EAG working group meetings, which took place the
day before.
Within the framework of the III Forum of Parliamentarians of the EAG member
states the participants discussed legal aspects of the sphere of combating
money laundering and financing of terrorism, considered the issues of
development of measures to improve the legal framework, regulation of digital
currencies, new technologies and financial innovations. Dmitry Zakharov,
Director of the Department of Financial Monitoring of the SCC, informed the
parliamentarians of the EAG member states about the role of the agency in improving
the ‘anti-money laundering’ legislation.
Also within the framework of
the Plenary Week the 27th meeting of the Council of Heads of Financial
Intelligence Units of the CIS Member States (CFIU) was held. The meeting was
attended by delegates from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia,
Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, observer countries of the meeting - India and Iran, as
well as international organisations.
The meeting reviewed the
results of the work of the International Risk Assessment Centre, as well as
certain aspects of the development of regulation of digital currency turnover.
The heads of delegations noted the importance of information exchange between
financial intelligence agencies to minimise anti-money laundering risks in the
CIS. Some issues of countering the financing of terrorism were also discussed
in a closed format.
The forum was attended by
about 200 participants from the EAG member states and 23 states and
international organisations, which are observers in the EAG.