The 24th session of the Council of Heads of Financial Intelligence Units of the CIS Member States (CIS CH FIUs) was held in the Sirius Federal Territory, chaired by Rosfinmonitoring (FIU Russia) Director Yuri Chikhanchin and attended by Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and the CIS Executive Committee.
The agenda of the meeting included addressing transnational crime within the CIS, recent operational actions taken by the parties, and next steps operationalizing the International Risk Assessment Center.
The participants re-committed to do more together to strengthen common responses to narcotics trafficking, terrorism financing and other types of crime.
The participants also supported the CH FIUs Secretariat initiatives to conduct a study on ML/TF risks associated with Islamic banking and to create a Young Professionals council.
