About high level seminar organized within the framework of the Tacis training program
On June 28, 2005 the Bank of Russia hosted a high-level international seminar on countering money laundering and terrorism financing. It was held within the framework of EU Technical Assistance Programme and “Central Bank Training — III” Project.
The seminar was opened by Mr. S.M. Ignatiev, Chairman of the Bank of Russia. The main speakers at the seminar were competent foreign experts — Mr. Jean Louis Fort, President of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), and Mr. Philip Robinson, Financial Crime Sector Leader of the UK Financial Services Authority. Mr. V.N. Melnikov, Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia, dwelt upon the key aspects of the Russian banking sector’s activities on countering the legalization of criminally obtained incomes.
The participants in the discussion were Mr. M.I. Grishankov and Mr. A.S. Kulikov, high executives of the Security Committee of the State Duma, Mr. A.A. Kozlov, First Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia, Mrs. T.V. Paramonova, First Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia, Mr. D.V. Tulin, Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia and Mr. G.A. Tosunyan, President of the Association of Russian Banks.
The seminar was also attended by senior officials of the Russian Government, Finance Ministry, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and heads of the Bank of Russia’s departments.
Foreign experts Mr. Jean Louis Fort and Mr. Philip Robinson answered numerous questions of the seminar participants.
In September 2005, a final high-level seminar for the top management of the Bank of Russia is to be held within the framework of the TACIS project. It will address corporate governance issues using banking supervision methods. Guest speakers at the seminar will be Mr. Peter Praet, Member of the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Belgium, and Mr. Andreas Ittner, Director of Financial Institutions and Markets Section of the Austrian National Bank.
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