During the period from May 30 to June 01, Lieutenant-General A. Sh. Shayakhmetov, Deputy Director of CARICC, made a field visit to Moscow (Russian Federation), where he had meetings with Major-General of Police, K.V. Smurov, First Deputy Head of Headquarters for Drug Control of the Ministry of the Interior of Russian Federation, and Major-General K.O. Kozhakhmetov, First Deputy Head of the Antiterrorist Center of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Issues of the current drug situation in CARICC member states and development of a unified methodology for assessing the smuggling of Afghan opiates along the “Northern” route planned by CARICC, a number of other issues related to the detection and elimination of clandestine drug laboratories for the production of synthetic drugs, as well as tackling legalization (laundering) of proceeds derived from illicit drug trafficking, were discussed at a meeting with K.V. Smurov.
During the meeting, K.V. Smurov noted that the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russian Federation supported the initiative of CARICC to obtain an observer status with the Eurasian Group to combat the legalization of proceeds of crime and the financing of terrorism, and has already sent a relevant document to the Center.
At a meeting of Lieutenant-General A. Sh. Shayakhmetov, Deputy Director of CARICC with Major-General K.O. Kozhakhmetov, First Deputy Head of the Antiterrorist Center of member-states of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the parties noted an increased level of cooperation in 2017 among the agencies and ways to further strengthen the partnership.

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