RECENT AML-CFT ESCAY EVENTS

Technical Assistance to South Africa, Sept 2024

This week, we are in Pretoria, South Africa🇿🇦, at the invitation of South Africa’s Financial Intelligence Centre, for a week-long [...]

Technical Assistance to Rwanda: Virtual Training for Central Bank Officials

We just concluded a week-long training in Kigali, Rwanda 🇷🇼, organised for officers from the Central Bank of Rwanda, also [...]

Heads of CIVIPOL Projects Meet Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Kenya

It was a great pleasure for heads of CIVIPOL projects based in Nairobi to pay a courtesy call to the [...]

Special Technical Assistance to South Sudan, Sept 2024

We are in Juba, South Sudan! At the request of the South Sudan Financial Intelligence Unit, and working hand-in-hand with [...]

Second Round of Special Technical Assistance to Namibia

We went back to Windhoek, Namibia in September for another week-long training for Namibian officials on money laundering and terrorist [...]

Meeting with Zimbabwe’s Officials

Our project team leader Frédéric Bayard and senior technical advisor, Alma Wanyama, were in Zimbabwe to hold high level meetings with Zimbabwe's officials. They [...]

Presenting SECFIN at ESAAMLG’s Task Force of Senior officials Meeting

At the ESAAMLG’s 48th Task Force Meeting of the Senior Officials meeting, CIVIPOL and GIZ shared a podium to present [...]

Special Technical Assistance for Namibia

With support from the European Commission, we were excited in July to kick off a tailor-made technical assistance training workshop [...]

Webinar on International Cooperation and Information Sharing

In July, we held a  week-long webinar on International Cooperation and Information Sharing on Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, Illicit Financial [...]

Training on Virtual Assets and Crypto-Currencies for Francophone Countries

In June, we held a regional training for francophone countries on 'Virtual Assets - Analysis, Investigation, Tracing and Confiscation of [...]

Training on AML-CFT & Illicit Financial Flows for Journalists, Whistle Blowers and Civil Societies

In May, we held a weeklong regional virtual workshop on AML-CFT and Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) for investigative journalists, whistle [...]

EAAACA executive Committee’s meeting In Addis Ababa-Ethiopia

Earlier in May, Our team leader, Frédéric Bayard attended the (EAAACA) East African Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities Executive Committee’s meeting [...]

Regional Conference of the Eastern Africa Anti – Corruption platform

Part of the AML-CFT ESCAY team attended the Regional Conference of the Eastern Africa Anti-corruption platform that was held in [...]

Training of Trainers in Financial Investigations- Entebbe Uganda

We completed a week-long training of trainers’ workshop on financial investigations, held in Entebbe, Uganda. This follows the successful process [...]

Meeting Joint Team on Migration-related crime on the Central Mediterranean Route

We were very delighted and honored to welcome to our offices a delegation from the Secretariat of the Joint Team [...]

Regional Workshop on Anti-Money Laundering, Countering Financing of Terrorism and Counter Illicit Financial Flows

Last week the AML/CFT ESCAY project, organised a weeklong regional Virtual Workshop on AML/CFT and Counter IFFs” that ran from [...]

Workshop on Counterterrorism and Criminal Justice

We kicked off our 3-day workshop, organised to sensitise Kenya's leading judges on terrorism, terrorism financing and counter terrorism. This [...]

Training for Kenya’s magistrates and judicial officers on the adjudication of terrorism and terrorism financing cases.

We had our first training this year for Kenya's magistrates and judicial officers on the adjudication of terrorism and terrorism [...]

Madagascar’s International Money Laundering Prevention Day

SAMIFIN – the Financial Intelligence Unit of Madagascar, led national celebrations on International Money Laundering Prevention Day in Antananarivo. Organised [...]

Financial investigations in Trafficking in persons and Smuggling of migrants training.

We partnered with our sister project BMM – Better Migration Management Project – to train Ugandan officials on the role [...]

IDLO’s Counter Organised Crimes Workshop, Tanzania

We attended the regional workshop in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, on Transnational Organised Crimes (TOC). The workshop, which was convened [...]

Meeting with FIIAP and EU ACT 2

We had a meeting in Nairobi with representatives of FIIAPP and the EU ACT II Project. The team was in Nairobi, among [...]

CIVIPOL’s Projects Meet French Security Attache, Djibouti

CIVIPOL has three projects in Kenya: Better Migration Management (BMM), whose mandate is to improve migration management in the region, and [...]

Congratulations! Uganda is off the Financial Action Task Force ( FATF) Grey List

The Financial Action Task Force ( FATF), a global body mandated to lead action to counter threats of abuse of [...]

Trade-Based Money Laundering (TMBL) and Illicit Financial Flows training

In February, we conducted a week-long virtual training on Trade-Based Money Laundering (TMBL) and Illicit financial flows for our French [...]

Donors round-table meeting with Kenya’s ODPP

Kenya's Director of Public Prosecutions, in February hosted donors present in Kenya for a round-table meeting to discuss areas of [...]

Meeting with Kenya’s ODPP – 30 January 2024

We are delighted to share the news of our meeting with Kenya's Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr Renson Ingonga OGW, [...]

MEETING WITH SWEDISH TAX AUTHORITY (STA) – 24-01-2024

The AML CFT ESCAY Project is coming to an end in a few months. But in its place, a new [...]

Official signing and adoption of National Curriculum on Financial Investigations 16 January 2024: Lusaka, Zambia

We are honored to have taken part in the signing and launch ceremony of Zambia’s National Curriculum of Financial Investigations [...]

Training on Asset Recovery and Confiscation: 11-15 December, Kinshasa, D R Congo

We closed the year by returning to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for a week, to continue with the [...]

Curriculum Development: The Validation workshop: 13 – 17 November 2023

The AML-CFT ESCAY Project was back to Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa, together with representatives from Malawi, Uganda, Tanzania, and [...]

Special Technical Assistance to Mozambique, November 2023

At AML-CFT ESCAY Project, we are continuing with the tailor-made assistance that we started in September for specific countries within [...]

Technical Assistance to the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo was placed on the FATF’s grey list for its AML/CFT deficiencies. The D R [...]

AML-CFT ESCAY Project STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING 11 OCTOBER 2023, HARARE

On the sidelines of our Heads of FIUs meeting recently held in Harare, Zimbabwe, the AML-CFT ESCAY Project also organised [...]

Heads of FIUs Meeting, Harare Zimbabwe 9-10 October

During the Forum of the heads of FIUs meeting held in Nairobi on January 17 – 19 at the launch [...]

The Africa Regional Judicial Dialogue conference, 3-5 October, Mombasa Kenya

This regional meeting of judges and chief justices was organized to deliberate on adjudicating transnational organised crime and Illicit financial [...]

Special Technical Support to South Sudan, 25 – 29 September Juba, South Sudan

With a newly structured and staffed Financial Intelligence Unit, South Sudan requested the AML-CFT ESCAY Project for support in building [...]

Financial Investigations on Trafficking in Persons: 26 – 28 September, Nairobi

In collaboration with the Better Migration Management program, we organized a training for Kenyan law enforcement agencies, on counter-trafficking in [...]

Special Technical Support to Madagascar, 18 – 22 September Antananarivo, Madagascar

Following an official request for assistance by Malagasy authorities to the AML-CFT ESCAY Project, the Project organized a mission to [...]

Speech Excerpt From Honourable Mahen Kumar Seeruttun, Mauritius Minister for Financial Services and Good Governance

In March 2023, The Project organised a meeting for all the directors of Asset Recovery Agencies from its 34 beneficiary […]

AML-CFT ESCAY Project’s Regional meetings: Our Strategy

With improved know-how and a good regional network of experts among trained national officials, the project seeks to contribute to […]

Regional Workshop on Asset Recovery, Lusaka, Zambia

Touchdown Lusaka, Zambia! We have started our workshop and training on Asset Recovery and Confiscation for representatives of the 34 [...]

Project Team Meets Hon Minister Dr. Damas Ndumbaro, Tanzania’s minister for justice and constitutional affairs, May 2023

Our project leader Frédéric BAYARD and senior project advisor, Alma Wanyama have this morning held a meeting with the Honourable [...]

Launch of Inter-Agency Guidelines Handbook on Investigations & Prosecution of Terrorism, Tanzania, May 2023

We're back to #Tanzania! We are very proud to have witnessed this morning the launch of the Inter-agency Guidelines Handbook [...]

Regional Workshop: Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risks and Obligations of DNFBPs, April 2023

We are hosting a regional webinar on Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risks and Obligations of Designated Non-Financial Businesses and [...]

Development of Guidelines for Investigation & Prosecution of Terrorism Cases, Tanzania, April 2023

Our team has been in Arusha this week, the second time in a series of workshops we have envisioned to [...]

The Mauritius Launch: 14th – 16th March

This was the third and final launch of the project, hosting the Heads of Asset Recovery Agencies from across Africa. […]

Regional Workshop: Financial Investigations, March 2023, Rwanda

Starting today and running to Friday, we have invited Financial analysts and criminal investigators from the Eastern, Southern, Central Africa [...]

Webinar on Effective Risk-based AML-CFT Supervision, February 2023

We're conducting a webinar for the 34 beneficiary countries of our project, drawn from East, Central and Southern Africa, for [...]

Regional Seminar on Financial Intelligence, February 2023 South Africa

Happening this week in Sandton, South Africa - we have launched the second workshop in a series of  week-long training [...]

The Mombasa Launch: 29th Jan – 2nd February

The second launch of the project was held in Mombasa alongside the 16th Annual General Meeting and Conference of African […]

The Nairobi Launch: 17-19 January 2023

Organised over three days, the event brought together about 150 delegates, drawn from the 34 beneficiary countries. This was the […]