On 3-4 April 2019, in the framework of Component 1 of the CARICC Regional Program “DISRUPTION”, with the support of the EU Action Program on Combating Drugs on Organized Crime and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, CARICC organized a seminar-meeting on the subject: “Developing a national inter-agency cross-border interaction mechanism , effectively undermining the financial resources of organized crime. "
The event was attended by experts from national coordinating bodies and financial intelligence units of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, experts from Sweden, Finland, Lithuania, as well as the Eurasian Group on combating money laundering and financing of terrorism, the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure and the EU Drug Action Program on Organized Crime.
The event discussed the development of interdepartmental cooperation and international cooperation aimed at effectively undermining the financial foundation of organized drug crime, and also studied the experience of the fusion centers in Lithuania, Sweden and Finland in the fight against money laundering.
Following the results of the seminar-meeting, experts from European countries with the participation of CARICC offered participants recommendations for the development of a national inter-agency cross-border interaction mechanism that effectively undermines the financial resources of organized drug crime.

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