OSCE and UN Office on Drugs and Crime train Kazakhstan officials to disrupt terrorist financing

A three-day training course aimed at strengthening the capacity of Kazakhstan to disrupt the financing of terrorist networks concluded on 7 November 2019 in Burabay, Kazakhstan.

Thirteen Kazakhstan experts and practitioners from the General Prosecutor’s Office, the Academy of Law Enforcement Agencies under the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Committee for Financial Monitoring, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Security Service attended the course.

The course was organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department, in co-operation with the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s Global Programme against Money Laundering and the Regional Office for Central Asia. International experts delivered the training together with four local government officials who were trained in a train-the-trainers course in Vienna, organized by the OSCE and the UNODC.

By focusing on localized scenarios based on real-life cases, the trainers were able to familiarize the participants with complex analytical and operational planning methods. They learnt how inter-agency co-operation can contribute to disrupting terrorist financial networks and how to strengthen their skills in the use of instruments and techniques for countering terrorist financing.  

Separate training session was dedicated to the upcoming mutual evaluation by the Eurasian group on combating money laundering and financing of terrorism (EAG).

With the financial support of Germany, the course was organized as part of a comprehensive multiannual capacity-building programme to support national efforts to counter terrorist financing in Central Asia.