Second Sub-regional Workshop on Bulk Cash Smuggling for South American countries

This workshop is the second of two specialized workshops in the area of Counter-Terrorism Financing, specifically about bulk cash smuggling, that the Secretariat of the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism of the Organization of American States (CICTE/OAS), conducts in conjunction with ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement), and with the support of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Inter-American Commission on Drug Abuse Control (OAS/SMS/CICAD). The workshop is scheduled to be held in Lima, Peru, from December 15 to 18, 2009.

The main objective of this workshop is to enhance the capability of participating countries to effectively enforce and investigate violations of their local cash declaration laws/regulations, related to bulk cash smuggling, so as to improve the efficient investigation of the violations to current normative relating borders’ declarations. The workshop will have a format intended to promote an exchange of experiences and best practices related to new analysis special techniques, investigation and prosecution and the importance of international cooperation in this type of cases.

The framework is given by UNSCR 1373 and FATF Special Recommendation IX (Cash Couriers).  The latter was developed with the objective of ensuring that terrorist and other criminal organizations cannot finance their activities or launder the proceeds of their crimes through the physical cross-border transportation of currency and bearer negotiable instruments.

Ten (10) countries of the region have been invited to the Workshops: Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. Besides the sponsoring organizations, expert speakers from the Executive Directorate of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee (UN/CTED), the South American Financial Action Task Force (GAFISUD), INTERPOL, and the Colombian Border Police, among others, have also been invited to participate.

For more information, contact the manager assigned to the program