Middle-East and Africa Typologies and Capacity Building Workshop, 22 to 25 January 2018

The purpose of the workshop was to share experiences on the successes and challenges from Middle-East and African regions and other jurisdictions on emerging money laundering and terrorist financing risks, trends and methods, as well as, on the conduct of national money laundering and terrorist financing risk assessments. The workshop considered the following five key issues in plenary and breakout sessions:

1. Money Laundering – Terrorist Financing and the Smuggling of Goods
2. Money Laundering through the Real Estate Sector
3. Terrorist Financing Risks
4. Financial Flows from Human Trafficking
5. Professional Money Laundering Networks

The outcomes of the workshop will serve as inputs to ongoing research work and will be communicated to relevant bodies.