Înapoi PGG project cooperates with Ukraine authorities to enhance anti-money laundering measures

PGG project cooperates with Ukraine authorities to enhance anti-money laundering measures

Many economic crimes involve misuse of corporate entities to hide origins of illicit gains. Increasing transparency around ultimate beneficial owners of corporate entities and understanding their potential money laundering and terrorist financing risks help countries to mitigate such misuse. Addressing this issue, PGG anti-money laundering project held a two-day training attended by Ukraine’s competent authorities on 15-16 January 2020 in Kyiv. Ukrainian practitioners and policy makers discussed with the Council of Europe experts good practices in assessing and building understanding about potential abuse of legal persons for money laundering and terrorist financing.

This is an area where MONEYVAL, the Council of Europe’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing monitoring body, in its fifth mutual evaluation round recommended the Ukrainian authorities to take measures to strengthen the risk mitigating framework. As an additional important step in this process, PGG project is currently working with a multi-stakeholder working group in Ukraine to provide recommendations for reinforcing reliability of information on beneficial owners of legal entities contained in a dedicated state register. During the first quarter of 2020, PGG project also responded to another priority action identified by MONEYVAL – enhancing the analysis of Ukraine’s money laundering and terrorism financing risks by utilising more statistics and ensuring that the statistics are robust.

To this end, PGG project provided recommendations to further improve a set of comprehensive statistical indicators. These indicators developed by the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine cover a large range of data that should be collected by a number of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing competent authorities, including supervisory bodies, law enforcement and intelligence agencies, and judicial authorities. Adequate data collection will help the authorities in providing future evidence regarding the effectiveness of Ukraine’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing regime.

Kyiv, Ukraine 30 March 2020
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Addressing hate speech and hate crime: regional gathering of the network of Equality Bodies from the Western Balkans and the Eastern Partnership Region

A two-day workshop on addressing hate speech and hate crime took place at the premises of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, involving Equality bodies from the Western Balkans and the Eastern Partnership regions.  The event supported by the EU and Council of Europe, gathered 50 representatives from both regions who discussed and exchanged on the best practices, measures and common challenges when addressing hate speech and hate crime. Through monitoring and reporting, policy advocacy, raising awareness and supporting victims equality bodies play a fundamental role in protecting human rights and ensuring that all individuals are treated equally.

In her opening remarks, Angela Longo, Head of Anti-discrimination Co-operation Unit, Council of Europe, underlined the significant progress in engaging with Equality Bodies through this network, regularly exchanging best practices and addressing the challenges of hatred and intolerance in societies. She highlighted that this new chapter of discussion delves into the grey area between hate speech and hate crime, addressing issues of incitement and biases,

Representatives from Equality Bodies had the opportunity to discuss and enhance their knowledge on the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers Recommendation to member States on combating hate crime, adopted on 7th May 2024, as well as gain a clearer understanding of EU standards in the field of hate crime. Moreover, participants engaged in exchanges with peers from the Spanish Observatory on Racism and Xenophobia (OBERAXE), who shared insights on addressing hate speech in the public discourse. The National Office Against Racial Discrimination (UNAR) in Italy provided practical examples for developing counter-narratives and raising awareness initiatives.

They also explored opportunities to advocate for legislative reform, foster multisectoral co-operation, enhance data collection, and overall improve national mechanisms to counter hate crimes.

This seminar was organised within the action “Promoting equality and combating racism and intolerance in the Western Balkans” and the project “Promoting equality and non-discrimination: towards more resilient and inclusive societies” – co-funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe, and implemented by the Council of Europe  under the joint Programmes “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Türkiye” and “Partnership for Good Governance”.

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