Kazakhstan is the member of Egmont group

On July 12, 2011 during the 19^th Plenary meeting of the group of financial intelligence units (FIU) that takes place in Erevan (Armenia) from July 11, 2011 till July 15, 2011 the heads of financial intelligence services of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Republic of Moldova signed Memorandum about cooperation in the sphere of combating money laundering and financing of terrorism.

On July 13, 2011 they made the official decision on entering of Kazakhstan represented by the Committee on financial monitoring of the Ministry of finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the structure of Egmont group as a full member. 

This event is acknowledgment of the national system of financial monitoring of Kazakhstan in the international scene and this will allow expanding cooperation with foreign states in the sphere of combating money laundering and financing of terrorism, as well as improving efficiency of work of the Committee and strengthening information exchange with financial intelligence units of member states of Egmont group.

Along with Kazakhstan the following states became the members of the Group: Azerbaidzhan, Morocco, Mali, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Republic of Uzbekistan.  At the moment 127 states are the members of the Egmont group.

The aim of the group Egmont is to provide platform for efficient counteraction of FIU in the world to combat money laundering and terrorism financing, as well as to cooperate in realization of internal programs on AML/CFT.

The Egmont group can accept FIU states that fully correspond to criteria of determination of group to FIU. These FIU must be acting and have legal possibility to exchange information with all partner FIU on the basis of Principles of information exchange.