UN Office on Drugs and Crime continues to enhance the capacity of competent authorities of the Republic of Kazakhstan in countering the financing of terrorism

On 27 November 2020, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Regional office in Central Asia and UNODC Global Programme against Money Laundering jointly with the Law Enforcement Academy under the General Prosecutor’s Office, the Committee on Financial Monitoring of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan conducted a working meeting with national trainers. On 2-4 December, in Nur-Sultan, the first module on “Countering financing of terrorism: Foundation course” was delivered in hybrid mode. Due to global spread of COVID-19 pandemic, the training was held in line with the WHO guidelines and national authorities’ sanitary regulations as physical distancing, face masks and hands sanitizing hygiene.

In his opening remarks Mr. Yeshimov Maralbek, Vice-Rector of the Law Enforcement Academy under the General Prosecutor’s Office of Kazakhstan noted that in 2019 Kazakhstan successfully implemented the International Programme “Countering Financing of Terrorism”. As a result, specialists of law enforcement agencies of the country and six national experts, including employees of the Academy developed their capacities. In 2020-2021, national experts with assistance of international experts will be implementing the National Programme on “Countering the financing of terrorism”. The main goal of the upcoming work is to know how to prevent the financing of terrorism. Such measures will improve the effectiveness of national system in countering the financing of terrorism.

“The Foundation course is aimed at national, regional and international threats, needs of terrorist organization, introduces the terrorism financing cycle. Within three days of work, a team of representatives of interested agencies will be created, which will be able to work together effectively on CFT after the training course.” – stated Mr. Aliaksandr Vadziany, UNODC Regional Advisor in Anti-Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism.

In his opening remarks, Mr. Gabit Lesbekov, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Financial Monitoring of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan, said that the CFT National Training Program is aimed at increasing the level of compliance with international standards, UN Security Council Resolutions, in particular Resolution 2462 (2019), standards of the Financial Action Task Force on anti-money laundering, and UN anti-terrorist financing standards.

The training course is delivered with participation of specialists of the Law Enforcement Academy under the General Prosecutor’s Office, the Committee on Financial Monitoring of the Ministry of Finance, the General Prosecutor’s Office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan with the financial support of Norway and Russian Federation.

 

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Shakhnoza Zafari,

Communication and External Relations Officer

UNODC Regional Office for Central Asia (Tashkent)

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