United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Central Asia

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

The course is the third in the series of courses and forms part of a comprehensive capacity-development programme focused on analysis, investigation, and inter-agency-co-operation aimed at supporting national efforts to counter terrorist financing. The Department on Combating Economic Crimes under the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan is the national partner in implementation of the course.

In September 2020, in course of the third stage of the countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) Programme, the Train-the-Trainer course was conducted for the law enforcement agencies of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The Train-the-Trainer Course on Countering Financing of Terrorism – Investigation is exercise-based, customized to the training needs of the requesting country. This Module is focused on Countering Terrorist Financing – Investigation is the first taught in a train-the-trainer to seven local trainers nominated by the Republic of Uzbekistan.

The Countering Financing of Terrorism Basic Investigation Course was organized and delivered by national trainers and international experts on 1-3 March 2021 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and gathered 26 participants from the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Ministry Internal Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Department on Combatting Economic Crimes under the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan, State Security Service of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Academy of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Each session was supported by scenario-based practical exercise reflecting on the topics of the lecture. The separate simulation exercises were linked together by one narrative, so the participants had to focus their attention on the details of the fictional “case” and would come back to the themes covered by the previous sessions which helped to reinforce the learning. All the scenarios and supporting materials were tailored to Uzbekistan in consultation with national experts which created an impression of a real-life investigation based on current priority threats.

Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has the good instruments for international co-operation and experts provided practical examples and show how to use FIU instruments on CFT. The training team was led by Andrei Romanovski, UNODC expert on AML/CFT and Mikhail Kalinchenko, international expert from Rosfinmonitoring. The programme was delivered in close collaboration with the Uzbek national trainers.

The training course is implemented under UNODC Programme for Central Asia with the expert support of the Global Programme against Money-Laundering and with the financial support of Norway and Russia.