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The Russian executive secretary of Moneyval

Written question No. 781 to the Committee of Ministers | Doc. 15731 | 24 March 2023

Signatories:
Mr Pieter OMTZIGT, Netherlands, EPP/CD

Moneyval – the Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism – evaluates AML measures in Europe, in close co-operation with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Massive amounts of dirty Russian money buy influence in Western media and politics.

Mr Omtzigt

To ask the Committee of Ministers:

In this situation, does the Committee of Ministers find acceptable that a Russian national, son of a SVR general, heads the Moneyval secretariat, or does it consider that this undermines the credibility of Moneyval and the Council of Europe as a whole?