(AGENPARL) - Roma, 27 Giugno 2022(AGENPARL) – MOSCOW lun 27 giugno 2022
President
of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr Chikhanchin, usually we listen to the main part of your report behind
closed doors but I know you want to start with your efforts to counter money laundering.
Go ahead, please.
Director
of the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring Yury Chikhanchin: If I may, I would like to tell you
first how we are developing the anti-money laundering service in the new
conditions. Our main goals are to preserve our positions in international
venues, adjust our legislative foundation, develop a system for organising work
with financial institutions, ensure proper use of budget funds and, of course,
suppress economic crimes.
As for international
venues, our main task today is to uphold our interests at the Financial Action
Task Force (FATF), an international organisation dedicated to countering money
laundering and financing of terrorism, and at its regional group. Unfortunately,
some states are trying to exclude Russia from FATF.
Vladimir
Putin: How will
they fight money laundering in such a situation? Without our participation.
Yury Chikhanchin: This is what we are telling them:
you will destroy the entire system. But probably, sometimes political interests
prevail. We are working with interested ministries; our reliable partners and I hope we will retain this platform.
We continue
to cooperate with relevant committees and working groups of the UN, SCO, CSTO,
RIC and BRICS. We are now concentrating on our regional FATF group – the Eurasian Group on Combatting Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (EAG).
In addition to Russia, this group includes Belarus, India, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. We are helping them technically and train
them at our international training support centre.
In addition
to the participants in our group, there are many experts – about 150 – from
international agencies, the UN, the World Bank, the IMF, the Council of Europe,
and separate countries, for instance, the United States, European and Southeast
Asian countries, etc.
We are taking
an active part in the work of the CIS Council
of the Heads of Financial Intelligence Units.
This is our association with the CIS. At this point, I would like to thank you
for supporting this project.
We are creating an international risk assessment centre for the CIS to draft measures on minimising the risks involved in countering money laundering.
We are working within the framework
of Operation Barrier against the funding of terrorism. We have already produced
results and there are frozen assets on both sides. Therefore, work is underway.
I would
like to say a few words about international information exchange. A number of countries
in the Egmont Group, which unites the financial intelligence services of almost
180 states, are also trying to disconnect us from communication channels.
However, we continue working nonetheless.
Today, we are actively
cooperating with about 70 countries and conducting over 100 joint financial
investigations, including with countries – the list is attached – that are even
in the category of unfriendly to a certain extent. This year alone, we launched
over 40 cases and are investigating them in cooperation with the Prosecutor’s
Office, the Federal Security Service and the Interior Ministry.
We are looking
for assets abroad with the help of our law-enforcement colleagues. At present,
we have about 60 cases. We are giving priority to offshore companies. We have already discovered a number of beneficiaries
and some of their assets and we are continuing to work with law-enforcement agencies.
We are actively
resorting to new formats. One of them is the initiative to hold an international competition on financial security, which you supported. Last
year, we conducted it for CIS countries. This year, we have already involved
BRICS states in addition to the CIS. So far, we have held a financial security
class in schools and over 2 million schoolchildren have taken a special course.
Now we are in the process of selection. We have received applications from over
30,000 schoolchildren and students from Russia as well as other BRICS and CIS
countries. We are very busy with this work now.
The final tour
will take place in Sirius in October. Thank you for supporting this. Sirius is very helpful to us. I think we will resolve this task with the help
of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, our
international training centre and the network institute.
We are upgrading
our legislative foundation. Eight initiatives have already become law this
year, including tougher measures against extremism and terrorism, and resistance to sanctions by circumventing special economic measures.
Vladimir
Putin: And reduction of the burden on businesses.
Yury
Chikhanchin: Yes,
certainly.
Vladimir
Putin: This is
important.
To be continued.
Fonte/Source: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/68705