The Department for Combating Economic Crimes under the General Prosecutor Office of Uzbekistan and the Financial Intelligence Unit of the Republic of Korea signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Monday on the margins of the sixth symposium of the Asia-Pacific Group on Combating Money Laundering, held in Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Under the MoU, the parties intend to combat against money laundering and financing of terrorism by exchanging information on suspicious financial transactions and persons carrying them out.
To date, the Department has signed similar documents with 21 relevant authorities of foreign countries (USA, Russian Federation, China, Japan, India, Turkey and others).
