March 3-7, 2025

From March 3 to 7, 2025, the IMF Legal Department (LEG) and the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (EAG) delivered a Joint Assessor Training. The training was co-organized by the CICDC and the People’s Bank of China (PBC) and it was hosted at the CICDC Shenzhen Training Center.

The course brought together 45 delegates from 19 agencies in 8 EAG member and observer states, including China (including Hong Kong SAR), Belarus, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Russia, Uzbekistan, and India. During the 5 days, the participants learned how to assess a country's level of compliance with the international standards on anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) and the effectiveness of its AML/CFT framework. They practiced these methods by undertaking technical compliance and effectiveness assessments of a fictional country’s AML/CFT framework, conducting mock interviews, writing parts of a Mutual Evaluation report, and presenting their findings in a mock plenary discussion. The participants gained the tools to participate as assessors in a FATF/EAG or other assessment body’s evaluation process.