The financial intelligence services of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine have been intensively cooperating to prevent the financing of illegal armed groups, according to Vyachaslaw Reut, the head of the financial monitoring department of Belarus’ State Control Committee (KGK) (TASS, July 22). “Despite the existing political differences between Russia and Ukraine, we have continued to fight the funding of terrorism and [are] maintaining close contacts [with each other] in the area of our activity,” he said at a July 22 news conference, in Minsk. While his department has been in charge of investigating reports of financing participants of the Ukrainian conflict …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation