OSCE and UNODC deliver training course in Kyrgyzstan on analytical techniques and using financial intelligence to effectively counter terrorist financing

A five-day training course aimed at strengthening the capacity of Kyrgyzstan to counter terrorist financing concluded in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan on 31 August 2019. It was organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department, in co-operation with the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

The training course was conducted to strengthen Kyrgyzstan’s compliance with international standards, in particular the recently adopted UN Security Council Resolution 2462 (2019), the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF)’s standards and OSCE commitments.

The seminar emphasized the key role of inter-agency co-operation in disrupting terrorist financing. Based on country and region-specific scenarios, it included topics on tackling financial intelligence, financial analysis, vulnerability and network analysis.  

More than half of the course was devoted to practical work on how to apply a  range of analytical  techniques to realistic scenarios and use financial investigation to counterthe financing of terrorism.

Twenty national experts and practitioners, including seven women, from the headquarters of the General Prosecutor’s Office, the Financial Intelligence Unit, the Ministry of the Interior and the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan participated in the event.

The OSCE organized the course with the financial support of Germany, as part of a comprehensive multi-annual capacity-building programme to support national efforts to counter terrorist financing in Central Asia.