The regime of Vladimir Putin, who sees the African continent as a place to expand its geopolitical influence through countries that live off Russian food and business, has an unexpected problem on the horizon.. Ukraine, represented by the State Financial Monitoring Service, has sent appeals to the institutions of the African continent, authorized to monitor the movement of financial flows, about the need to strengthen supervision of businesses with ties with the Russian Federation.

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ZN. UA received at its disposal a document from which it follows that the State Financial Monitoring Service (which, by the way, is a financial intelligence unit of Ukraine) sent relevant appeals to the Banking Commission of Central Africa, the Commission for Supervision of the Financial Market of Central Africa and the Inter-African Conference of Insurance Markets.

As follows from the document, this appeal was a continuation of the work to counter Russia in the field of money laundering and terrorist financing..

This is a direction where Ukraine has already achieved great success in other countries and continents for more than a year of Russian aggression..

Thus, in particular, Ukraine achieved the suspension of Russia's membership in the FATF.

Russia's actions are recognized as contrary to the principles of the FATF and violating the standards of the organization. Earlier, the Russian Federation was also banned from participating in current and future FATF projects..

In addition, the aggressor country is prohibited from participating in meetings of regional bodies such as FATF (FSRB) in the status of a member of the FATF. Further measures are being implemented, their goal is the complete exclusion of the Russian Federation from the organization.

The FATF has already said that Russia's actions unacceptably violate the basic principles of the organization aimed at promoting the safety, security and integrity of the global monetary system..

FATF is the most influential international intergovernmental anti-legalization organization. It monitors methods and countermeasures for money laundering and terrorist financing. The organization also contributes to the implementation of sanctions on a global scale..

Russia excluded from MONEYVAL.

On March 16, the Russian Federation was expelled from the Committee of Experts of the Council of Europe MONEYVAL. Thus, the Russian Federation cannot participate in the meetings of the Council of Europe on combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism.

Russia restricted membership in the Egmont Group.

The Financial Investigation Unit (FIU) of the Russian Federation is limited in group membership rights. In particular, the FIU of the Russian Federation is prohibited from holding managerial, advisory and representative positions, holding meetings and participating in projects.

The Egmont Group acts to improve cooperation in the field of combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism. It also contributes to the implementation of national programs in this area..

Russia lost observer status in APG.

This is the Asia-Pacific Anti-Money Laundering Group..

Conference of Parties CETS 198 also limited the rights of the Russian Federation.

As a result, Russia is deprived of the right to vote on any issues that are not related to the statutory functions of the conference, and can only participate in conference meetings online. Also, the authorized representative of the Russian Federation is not entitled to perform any functions of the speaker, coordinator, head of the delegation, representing the conference, and also vote during elections to the leading positions of the conference.

And this is a list of far from all the successes in this area that have been achieved on the initiative and with the assistance of Ukraine.

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Recall that Russia is actively working to increase its influence on the poor countries of Africa in order to actually open a second front there to oppose the West. According to analysts, Moscow has focused on a strip of countries from Mali to Sudan. They believe they can create a "

Best of all, Moscow managed to advance in the Sahel region (a politically unstable semi-desert strip under the Sahara). Coups have taken place in several countries fighting jihadist insurgencies, bringing to power military governments hostile to France and openly sympathetic to Moscow..

In the Central African Republic alone, there are about 1,500 paramilitaries from the “Wagner Group” mining gold and diamonds and producing bags of Wa Na Wa vodka with a rhinoceros logo and the slogan: “Made in the Central African Republic using Russian technologies”.

Even CAR President Faustin Archange Touadera owes his life to Wagner mercenaries.

As a result of these efforts, the only region in the world where the number of supporters of Putin and his actions remained higher than those of non-supporters is sub-Saharan Africa, which depends, in particular, on food from Russia.. These are the data recently released by the American Institute of Public Opinion Gallup.