10:39 14.09.2016

Money laundering council established in Ukraine

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Money laundering council established in Ukraine

The Cabinet of Ministers has set up the Council on Fighting Laundering of Income obtained from crime, financing of terrorism and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

According to government resolution No. 613 dated September 8, it consists of 30 people, and the leader is Head of the State Financial Monitoring Service Ihor Cherkasky. First Deputy Head of the State Financial Monitoring Service Andriy Kovalchuk was appointed deputy head of the council. The council also included the deputy finance minister, the deputy minister of economic development and trade, the deputy minister of foreign affairs, the deputy minister of justice, the deputy interior minister, the first deputy head of the State Fiscal Service, representatives of the Prosecutor General's Office, the Security Service of Ukraine, the head of the information processing department at the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, the president of the League of Insurance Organizations of Ukraine, a representative of the Association of Ukrainian Banks, a representative of the Independent Association of Ukrainian Banks.

The council is a temporary advisory body of the Cabinet, whose tasks are to coordinate the actions of other state authorities in the sphere of combating money laundering and preparation of proposals for the formation and implementation of state policy in this sphere.

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