The President finds it important to consolidate the efforts of agencies responsible for countering illegal financial operations and to focus on preventive action. It is also essential to have regions of the Russian Federation take a more active part in this effort and to accelerate work to improve the normative legal base for counteracting illegal financial operations.

Before the meeting, the President toured the Rosfinmonitoring Centre for Risk Assessment of Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing, which was set up in June 2012 pursuant to the President’s Executive Order.