OREANDA-NEWS. July 09, 2014. The 20 Plenary session of the Eurasian Group on combating money laundering and financing of terrorism has passed in Moscow (Russian Federation).

The Republic Tajikistan, after the World Bank’s evaluation in 2008, because of the absence of special division in the given sphere and discrepancies of the legislation of the Republic of Tajikistan to recommendations of Group of working out of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (“FATCA”), was put on a mode of the EAG "the intensive monitoring".

For the purposes of quit from this special mode, the Republic twice a year represented the completion statement in the given sphere in conformity with regulations of this Group, and these reports were discussed and evaluated by experts of the given Group on each session of the EAG.

At the next scheduled session the full three-year report of the republic has been discussed by the experts - appraisers. Pursuant to the conclusion on conformity of the legislation of the Republic of Tajikistan to requirements of recommendations FATF and their practical realisation, the republic report has been accepted and estimated positively.

Due to the achieved progress, on the basis of the Public Statement of the 20th Plenary session of the EAG, the Republic of Tajikistan is removed from "the intensive monitoring" mode and transferred on "the standard monitoring" mode.