On July 28, 2022, the ITMCFM held a workshop on the topic “Countering the Laundering of Proceeds from Drug Trafficking”.
The event for employees of the territorial bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation was held in a videoconference mode. The invited lecturers-experts were the Head of the Division of Organizational and Analytical Work of the Department for Countering Money Laundering of Rosfinmonitoring A. Klimanov and the Deputy Head of the Division for Countering the Legalization of Proceeds from Drug Trafficking of the Department for Organizing Operational and Preventive Measures, Countering the Drug Threat in the Field of IT Technologies and Legalization of Drug Proceeds of the Main Department on Drug Control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia E. Firsova.
During the workshop, the following issues were considered:
- specificities of conducting financial investigations of laundering the proceeds from crime related to drug trafficking;
- the practice of the Russian system of countering the legalization (laundering) of proceeds from drug trafficking: identification, documentation, investigation and collection of evidence in criminal cases provided for in Articles 174 and 174.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
