On August 31, 2007 the Head of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service Mr. Victor Zubkov and President of Association of Russian Banks (ARB) Mr. Garegin Tosunyan signed an Agreement on cooperation in the sphere of combating legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime.
In line with the document the Parties within their competence will share their operational experience in the sphere of combating legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime and financing of terrorism, including through meetings, conferences, seminars; at mutual consent send their representatives to participate in joint events; carry out joint events regarding advance training of the staff; participate in working out of methodological materials, programs, recommendations for the purpose of preventing infringement of legislation of the Russian Federation in the sphere of combating legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime and financing of terrorism; conduct other events, and in case they reach an agreement it will be formalized as an amendment to the present Agreement.
Association of Russian Banks is the 35th Russian organization, with which Rosfinmonitoring has signed Cooperation Agreement.
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