Financial Investigations On 24-25 June, the PCUz organized a training seminar for some 200 AML/CFT compliance officers (Non Banking Credit Institutions) focussing on: the international legal framework on AML/CFT; specifics of Micro financing; 40+9 FATF Recommendations; the Third Directive of the European Commission and other related regimes. From 20-24 September, the PCUz facilitated a study tour to Canada for 12 representatives of the FIU, the General Prosecutor’s Office, the Ministry of Finance, the MFA and the Security Council of the President. Participants visited Canadian AML/CFT structures such as FINTRAC, OSFI, and the Department of Finance. On 22 September, the PCUz facilitated a visit by the Director FIU and of a representative of the Security Council of the President to the Canadian Egmont Group to hand over the official application of Uzbekistan to become a member of the Egmont Group. On 15-17 November, the PCUz organized a training seminar for representatives of the FIU Uzbekistan and for IT specialists on using AML/CFT software. On 15-18 November, the PCUz, in co-operation with the OSCE Mission to Serbia facilitated a meeting of the Director and the Head of International Department of the Serbian FIU with their counterparts in the Uzbek FIU in Tashkent. Serbia is one of the two sponsor countries in the framework of the Egmont Group, to which the task of supporting the accession of Uzbekistan to the Group was assigned. This visit was the first opportunity for the two FIUs to establish contacts and to start the necessary assessment process of the applicant FIU. In 2010, the PCUz also facilitated the donation of video equipment for the press and public relations office of the FIU Uzbekistan; software to detect suspicious transactions and to create STRs for the Central Bank and other banks of Uzbekistan, as well as software for analysis and database purposes of the FIU Uzbekistan. Trafficking in Human Beings From 11-14 May, the PCUz organized a training for 17 judges on “Judicial Response to Human Trafficking: Challenges, Lessons Learned and Good Practices”. 25-27 May, the PCUz organized an advanced training on “Investigating human trafficking: Challenges, lessons learned and good practices” for a group of 32 investigators from the Police, National Security Service and Prosecutors Offices On 20-22 October, the PCUz organized a human trafficking awareness course for 15 customs officers. Illicit Drugs From 24-28 January, the PCUz supported the participation of the Senior Inspector of the National Information Analytical Centre on Drug Control (NCDC) under the Cabinet of Ministers in the OSCE Workshop on “Combating Illicit Crop Cultivation and Enhancing Border Security and Management: Thailand as a Case Study (Chiangmai and Chiangrai regions).” The event was organized upon the initiative of the Kazakh Chairmanship in cooperation with the Thai Government to provide a platform for exchanging experience and benefiting from best practices among policy makers from OSCE participating States, Partners for Co-operation, the process and existing tools to tackle illicit crop cultivation, as well as Thailand’s development model. 111

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