CTED facilitates national workshop on anti-money laundering and terrorist financing in Nepal

BMUSONI — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 20:20:00 +0000

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On 6-8 February 2017, the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) facilitated a national workshop for judges, prosecutors, and investigators in Nepal. Held in Kathmandu, the workshop focused on the National Judicial Academy’s new manual on anti-money laundering and terrorist financing (AML-TF). The manual outlines recent amendments to Nepal’s AML-TF legislation, and is the culmination of a multi-year project amongst the National Judicial Academy, CTED, and the Global Center on Cooperative Security.

The Executive Director of the National Judicial Academy with the Head judge of the Special Anti-Money Laundering Court in Nepal with the new manual.

The manual was developed in coordination with CTED and the Global Center, with financial support of the U.S. Department of State.

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South Asia: Working towards international cooperation in terrorism prevention

BMUSONI — Tue, 26 May 2015 16:03:00 +0000

In order to strengthen counter-terrorism efforts at the national and regional levels, the 51�Թ� Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Government of Nepal, and the 51�Թ� Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) in March 2015 organised a workshop for South Asian countries on ‘Strengthening International Cooperation in Criminal Matters with a Focus on Terrorism Cases’ in Kathmandu, Nepal. Bringing together high-level policy-makers and criminal justice experts and officials from all eight SAARC countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) and beyond, the workshop provided an opportunity for the sharing of experiences in the area of international and regional cooperation in criminal matters. Experts from INTERPOL and the Commonwealth Secretariat presented their respective cooperation mechanisms, including case work and live examples. Each national delegation provided the workshop participants with information on their existing national legislative frameworks and mechanisms for international cooperation with a particular focus on mutual legal assistance and extradition. While acknowledging the need for such formal mechanisms, workshop participants also underlined the importance of establishing and using ways of informal cooperation.

The workshop – which was conducted under the UNODC global project “Strengthening the legal regime against terrorism,” with financial support from the United States of America – served as a platform for reflection as to the identification of possible gaps and required amendments to existing frameworks.

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CTED facilitates national workshop on anti-money laundering and terrorist financing in Nepal

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South Asia: Working towards international cooperation in terrorism prevention