President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych signed the order on preventing and combating criminal activities of organized criminal groups, including international ones, which deal with laundering of incomes, received from crime and terrorist financing, ForUm learned from the President’s press office.
According to the order, the government and the National Security and Defense Council with the participation of financial market regulators should revitalize work on this issue, particularly implementation of financial monitoring measures.
Moreover, the President recommended the Prosecutor General’s Office to take steps to identify schemes and mechanisms of legalization of incomes from organized crime, and redistribution of income, holding guilty liable, and to ensure the strengthening of cooperation between law enforcement and other government officials in the fight against organized crime, to ensure improving of interagency cooperation among regulatory and law enforcement agencies.
The National Security and Defense Council is instructed to prepare for consideration the report on the state of prevention and counteraction to laundering of incomes from crime and terrorist financing till the end of October 2013.
