ARMENIA AND MONEY LAUNDRY
Support A1+!On June 13 under the auspices of OSCE and UNO an international seminar on illegal circulation of money, money laundry and terrorism financing took place in “Armenia” Hotel. International experts, representatives of Armenian president’s staff, Parliament, Police, Ministries of Justice, National Security, Foreign Affairs, General Office of Prosecutor, tax, customs, bodies and bank system, partook in it.
Latvia representative and international expert Aldis Lielyuksis introduced the existing types of finance investigation, and referred to the functional and structural issues of those bodies.
He told that Armenia must become a member of “Egmont Group”, containing 69 states, as it gives a chance to exchange information between the financial investigation bodies of “club” country-members.
The international experts criticised the Armenian bill on “Fight against Legalisation of the Illegally Acquired Revenues”.
In particular, Dologore Solongo, representative of the World program on fight against money laundry of UNO Bureau for Drug Control and Crime Prevention and author of “Russian Capitalism and Money Laundry” work, looking through the bill says that the “harmful articles” of the same Law of Russia are copied there, which have already been changed in Russia.
