The 16-th Egmont Group Plenary Meeting was held in Seoul (Korea) on 25-29 May, 2008. Delegation of Rosfinmonitoring headed by Mr. Yury Chikhanchin (the Head of Rosfinmonitoring) took part in this event.
During the Plenary Session the Annual Report of the Egmont Group Committee was presented. Issues on joint countermeasures against money laundering, on the IT use for improving effectiveness of AML/CFT actions, as well as typologies and information security issues were discussed.
At the meeting of the Heads of FIUs it was decided to grant Egmont Group membership to the FIUs of Turks and Caicos and Moldova. Rosfinmonitoring is the sponsor of Moldova. At present the Egmont Group unites 108 FIUs.
In the framework of the Plenary Session, bilateral negotiations with the foreign partners and the representatives of the international organizations were carried out. Besides, Rosfinmonitoring signed bilateral interagency cooperation agreements with the FIUs of Nigeria and Thailand.
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