this Eurasia Group The EAG, at its 41st plenary meeting of nine members on Friday, identified more than 600 people linked to global networks involved in financing terrorism this year, according to a statement from a senior official.
Chairman Yuri Chikanchin stressed that discovering methods of financing international terrorists and tracing their financial backers are the most significant current challenges, which were discussed extensively at the meeting.
“This is our biggest challenge – identifying the financing channels, financiers and support of international terrorists, because now we are all international terrorists,” he said.
“This year, more than 600 people have been identified through analysis in our region. financial intelligence National Unit (FIU) associated with EAG. We identified these individuals based on their financial behavior. This is a great result and will give us further opportunities to enhance this work in the future.
Chikanchen was speaking at a press conference at the end of the five-day meeting that began on November 25. , Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
He also said that the identification effort was a great success and will open the door to further this operation and identify those related to terrorist financing, adding that in the current global situation, the risks related to terrorism are not limited to any one country.
Chikanchen said: “The risk of terrorism across the region is the most widespread and disturbing. Afghanistan is a country where the risk of terrorism still exists. We are considering joint measures to deal with this risk from Afghanistan.”
He said that at an EAG meeting, discussions focused on strengthening the group’s relationship with Afghanistan and mitigating terrorism risks in the country.
“We discussed in a meeting how to consolidate and strengthen our relationship with Afghanistan and how to minimize the risks and situations that the situation still raises,” he added.
Responding to a question about the impact of the ongoing war in Ukraine and West Asia, Chikancin said: “The Eurasian Group is a purely technical organization. We never discuss issues of a political nature. We are against terrorist financing and money laundering.”
Talking about cryptocurrencies, he said that regulating the existing framework for cryptocurrencies is a serious and complex problem, and the world needs to unite to solve this problem.
Vivek Agarwal, head of the Indian delegation at the EAG meeting, said that the five-day meeting was beneficial to the host country in many ways.
Aggarwal is the additional secretary in the revenue department of the finance ministry and director of the country’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). He said the 600 individuals identified by EAG also included people involved in cross-border financial transactions.
The units involved in these transactions have also been identified in these cases, PTI quoted as saying.
“The EAG meeting discussed in detail the issue of cross-border terrorism financing in the Indian context. The meeting discussed the role of groups like Al-Qaeda, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Taiba and their affiliates, and the international monetary transactions conducted by them,” Agarwal said.
The EAG meeting also elaborated on the issue of financial transactions through cryptocurrencies, which could be used to enhance terrorism.
