The 38th Plenary Meeting of the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (EAG) and working group meetings were held in Almaty (Republic of Kazakhstan) between 4 and 9 June 2023 in a hybrid format with participation of representatives of EAG member states and observers, FATF member states and Secretariat, and FATF-style regional bodies.

On 5 June 2023, Mr. Sh. Komilzoda, representative of the Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination Centre for Combating Illicit Trafficking of Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and their Precursors (CARICC) attended the meeting of the Working Group on Typologies and Countering the Financing of Terrorism and Crime (WGTYP) organized via video conference during the 38th EAG Plenary Meeting.

The meeting endorsed a report and executive summary of the mutual evaluation of Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan in the second round of EAG mutual evaluations.      

Plenary meeting acknowledged the 4th report on the progress of the Republic of Tajikistan without reviewing the technical compliance ratings under the 2nd round of EAG mutual evaluations and noted the country's progress in improving the AML/CFT system.

Plenary meeting also took note of the 1st report on the progress of the Republic of Uzbekistan with technical compliance ratings revision under the 2nd round of EAG mutual evaluations and marked the country's progress in improving AML/CFT system.

Plenary meeting adopted EAG Budget for 2024, EAG Annual Report for 2022, EAG Work Plan for the second half of 2023 and 2024.

The 39th EAG Plenary Meeting will be hosted by the People's Republic of China in November 2023.