Kazakh trainers trained in countering terrorist financing by OSCE and UN Office on Drugs and Crime

A two-day train-the-trainer course on countering terrorist financing was organized in Vienna for Kazakh participants on 6 and 7 March 2019 by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department, in co-operation with the OSCE Programme Office in Astana and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime's Global Programme against Money Laundering (UNODC/GPML), and supported by the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (EAG).

The course, which took place on the premises of the OSCE Secretariat, was led by international experts and tailored to Kazakhstan. It included country- and region-specific scenarios.

The five participants of the course will deliver training courses to local officials upon their return to Kazakhstan, together with international experts from the OSCE, UNODC/GPML and the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism.

The training programme covered areas such as sources of information, case management, investigation, preventing the abuse of non-profit organizations for terrorist financing, and foreign terrorist fighters.

The train-the-trainer course is part of a comprehensive multi-annual OSCE-UNODC capacity-building programme to support national efforts to counter terrorist financing in Central Asia.