From 30 March to 3 April, ITMCFM hosted an in-person training on countering money laundering and illicit drug trafficking involving virtual assets, organized jointly with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for 19 representatives of FIUs and AML structures from Central Asian states.
As part of the program, leading AML/CFT shared, among other things, successful experience of cooperation between the Russian Federation and partner countries, including:
- financial investigations, money laundering typologies and examples of judicial practice;
- international cooperation, including within the CSTO, EAG, ITMCFM and UNODC;
- methods for analyzing and tracing crypto transactions;
- Freezing, seizing and storing crypto-assets.
In addition, specialists from Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan shared national cases and carried out several investigations using the Transparent Blockchain tool.
During the discussions, participants addressed a number of key issues: the difficulty of calculating laundered funds from crypto incidents, the response of courts and law enforcement authorities to crypto-laundering cases, and methods of interacting with crypto exchanges in different legal environments.
