Final Workshop of Project on Statistics and Data for Measuring Illicit Financial Flows in the Asia-Pacific Region

07 to 08 December 2022 | By invitation only

Hybrid meeting, Bangkok, Thailand

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Illicit Financial Flows

The meeting gathered experts and stakeholders in Bangkok and online from 7 – 8 December 2022.

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Presentations

The meeting's objectives:

Report on improved statistical capacity to measure illicit financial flows;
Report the estimates of the illicit financial flows;
Share experiences and best practices among the pilot countries within the region;
Facilitate continuation of measurement by national statistical offices and national agencies;
Disseminate testing guidelines (both crime-related and tax and commercial) which were updated as a result of this pilot testing round;
Discuss future work, interregional cooperation, and policy implications for measuring illicit financial flows

References

Previous training workshop: Interregional training workshop on the statistical measurement of tax and commercial illicit financial flows (IFFs), 6-13 December 2021
Previous Stats Café:

Progress on Estimating Illicit Financial Flows – Lessons from the Asia-Pacific Region, 26 September 2022
Estimating the size of illicit financial flows: Strengthening national capacity to monitor SDG target 16.4, 22 September 2020

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Session/Title	Presenter	PPT
Session 2: Pilot study results on Illicit Financial Flows from Drug Trafficking (Bangladesh and Maldives)
BFIU: National Central Agency to Receive, Analyze and Disseminate STR/SAR related to ML &TF	Juairia Haque, Joint Director, Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit	PPT
Measuring illicit financial flows from drug trafficking in South Asia - First pilot results from pilot in Maldives	Maldives Bureau of Statistics and Maldives Police Service	PPT
Session 3: Pilot study results on human trafficking and wildlife trafficking (Nepal and Viet Nam)
Drugs and Persons in Trafficking in Nepal	Dilli Raj Joshi, Joint Secretary, National Statistics Office, Nepal	PPT
Measuring illicit financial flows from wildlife trafficking - First results from pilot testing in Viet Nam	UNODC	PPT
Session 4: Methods – crime-related IFFs (UNODC)
Lessons learned and way forward for the Asia-Pacific region	UNODC	PPT
Session 5: Methods – tax and commercial-related IFFs (UNCTAD)
Guidelines for measuring tax and commercial IFFs: Methods used in the pilot studies	Amandine Rushenguziminega, Project Officer, UNCTAD Statistics and Bojan Nastav, Statistician, UNCTAD Statistics	PPT
Session 6: Pilot study results (Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan)
Measuring Business and Tax Illicit Financial Flows in Kyrgyzstan	RakhmanovaZhyldyzZhalilovna, Head of the Department of Social Statistics	PPT
Uzbekistan	ShukhratKhomidov, DCEC at the General Prosecutor’s Office	PPT
Guidelines for measuring tax and commercial IFFs: Feedback on methods from pilot studies	Amandine Rushenguziminega, Project Officer, UNCTAD Statistics and Bojan Nastav, Statistician, UNCTAD Statistics	PPT
Session 7: Methods – tax and commercial-related IFFs (UNCTAD)
Guidelines for measuring tax and commercial IFFs: Feedback on methods from pilot studies	Amandine Rushenguziminega, Project Officer, UNCTAD Statistics and Bojan Nastav, Statistician, UNCTAD Statistics	PPT
Session 8: Way forward for the Asia-Pacific Region (ESCAP)
Estimating the effect of trade facilitation implementation on trade misinvoicing-based illicit financial flows and tax revenue in Asia and the Pacific	Alexey Kravchenko, Economic Affairs Officer, Trade Policy and Facilitation Section, Trade, Investment and Innovation, ESCAP	PPT

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