MEDIA INVITATION

On June 21, 2022, an international forum dedicated to parallel financial investigations and the fight against the legalization of criminal proceeds begins in Almaty.

Among the participants: representatives of fiscal investigation bodies, financial intelligence units and prosecutors, scientists and experts from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

Within three days, it is planned to discuss such issues as the specifics and forms of implementing parallel financial investigations, the possibilities of financial intelligence, the search for foreign assets based on open and closed sources, investigative and judicial practice and prosecutor’s supervision in cases of this category, countering the withdrawal and return of capital, instruments of international cooperation and the possibilities of informal networks.

Organizers: The Academy of Law Enforcement Agencies (as the CIS Base Organization for Training Financial Investigation Officers), the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, the US Embassy and the OSCE Program Office in Kazakhstan.

Media representatives are invited to cover the event.

Journalists will be able to attend the opening of the event, where performances are planned:

— Rector of the Academy of Law Enforcement Agencies Timur Suleimenov;

— UNODC Regional Representative Ashita Mitall;

— Deputy Head of the Main Department of Preliminary Investigation of Tax Crimes, representative of the Chairman of the Coordinating Council of Tax (Financial) Investigation Bodies of the CIS member States Rovshan Abdullayev;

— First Deputy Chairman of the Agency for Regulation and Development of the Financial Market Nurlan Abdrakhmanov;

— Deputy Chairman of the Financial Monitoring Agency Zhenis Elemesov;

— John Dudley, INL Regional Adviser at the US Embassy in Kazakhstan;

— Representative of the OSCE Program Office in Nur-Sultan Rati Japaridze.

In the future, journalists will be able to interview the organizers of the event, domestic and foreign experts.

Accreditation by e-mail rbs5166@mail.ru and phone 8-747-468-25-88 (Bagzhan Raykhanova).

Venue: Almaty, Baizakov str., 303.

Start: 10:00 a.m. on June 21, 2022.

Accredited journalists are requested to arrive no later than 09:45 hours.