| Subject: | Out-of-session endorsement of the IEWG CSAE project |
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| Date: | Mon, 27 Jul 2020 06:50:03 -0400 |
| From: | Nedko Krumov <nedko.krumov@egmont.org> |
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** Letter on behalf of the IEWG Chair**
Dear Heads of FIU,
We hope you are well and healthy!
Please find attached the final report resulting from the Information Exchange Working Group (IEWG) project on
Combating Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation: Analysis and Application of Financial Intelligence
(together with its Public Bulletin and the necessary Memorandum), which is undertaken as part of the work within the IEWG Stream 2 (Increasing the Level of Knowledge and Understanding on Key ML/TF Threats and National Security Risks).
The report’s objective was to utilise the data held by Egmont's global network of FIUs to provide opportunities to enhance strategic and tactical intelligence efforts to combat CSAE including the identification of relevant funds movements, as well as offenders and facilitators.
Further to IEWG’s endorsement and the project team’s presentation at the July 2020 IEWG virtual meeting, this report and its public bulletin is being circulated for your out-of-session
approval.
Should you endorse this report, the next steps will be to publish the report on the ESW – IEWG Community Page and to upload its Public Bulletin to the Egmont's public website.
You are therefore invited to provide your endorsement and/or comments by August 10th, 2020. As usual, a non-response will be considered as a tacit approval of the attached report and its public bulletin, together with their dissemination strategy.
The expedited approval process is requested due to the fact that because of the COVID-19 outbreak and the associated increase in online traffic, the risk of online CSAE is also increased. Therefore, the findings of this report might be specifically relevant in the current situation and making them available not only to FIUs but as suggested in the dissemination strategy, to relevant domestic LEAs, would be of high importance.
Thank you very much for your consideration.
Kind regards,
The Egmont Group Secretariat