OSCE and UNODC deliver training course in Kyrgyzstan on effective investigations for countering terrorist financing

A four-day training course aimed at strengthening the capacity of Kyrgyzstan to counter terrorist financing concluded in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan on 28 August 2021. It was organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department, in co-operation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek.

The practical training course focused on improving the capacity of Kyrgyz law enforcement agencies to collaborate and conduct investigations to counter the financing of terrorism (CFT). More than half of the course was devoted to practical exercises based on realistic scenarios, which were tailored to the national context in consultation with national trainers

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

The training course was conducted as part of a OSCE–UNODC comprehensive multiannual training programme on CFT, which aims to strengthen Kyrgyzstan’s compliance with international standards, in particular United Nations Security Council Resolution 2462 (2019) on preventing and combating the financing of terrorism, the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering’s standards, as well as OSCE commitments.

The OSCE organized the course with financial support from Italy.