On May 21, 2026, the 32nd meeting of the Council of Heads of Financial Intelligence Units (CHFIU) of the CIS Member States took place in Ashgabat. The meeting was chaired by Yuri Chikhanchin, Director of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service of the Russian Federation (Rosfinmonitoring).
The Council was attended by the heads of financial intelligence units (and their representatives) from all states party to the Agreement on the Establishment of the Council – Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
Delegations from the CIS Executive Committee, the financial intelligence units of Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, the CIS Coordination Council of Prosecutors General, the CIS Anti-Terrorism Center, and the Bureau for the Coordination of the Fight against Organized Crime and Other Dangerous Types of Crime in the Territory of the CIS Member States (BKBOP) participated in the meeting.
The Council considered seven issues, focusing on the activities of the states party to the Agreement on the Establishment of the Council and the CIS sectoral cooperation bodies to minimize regional threats. Each member of the CHFIU commented on this topic, provided examples of effective work, and made suggestions for improvement.
The results and prospects of the Council's three working groups were discussed in detail: the Counter-Terrorism Financing Working Group, the Anti-Money Laundering Working Group, and the System for the Exchange of Information between the Financial Intelligence Units of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Taking into account the results achieved through the International Center for Assessing the Risks of Legalization (Laundering) of Proceeds from Crime and the Financing of Terrorism (ICRA), the CHFIU decided to discuss the creation of a Risk Assessment Working Group.
The Council discussed and adopted decisions on new initiatives by its members, in particular, the initiative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to identify regional risks in the use of money transfer systems related to terrorist financing. The Council was interested in the information from the Republic of Uzbekistan on its experience of combating the laundering of proceeds from drug crimes through "drop cards" opened in the names of foreign citizens.
The Council also decided to hold joint events with the BKBOP regarding interstate investigations as well as with the Anti-Terrorism Center regarding the holding of a Counter-Terrorism Forum.