DUSHANBE, June 15, — Visiting World Bank FDPFI’s Task Team Leader on Illegal Logging and Money Laundering; and Asset Recovery Theodore S. Greenberg, heading a group of experts, yesterday met with Tajik Drug Control Agency (DCA) Director, Lieutenant-General Rustam Nazarov, Asia-Plus has learned at the Tajik counternarcotics agency.
According to the counternarcotics agency, the main purpose of the visit is for the group to study a progress of fight against money laundry in Tajikistan. “This analysis will be foundation for report and specific proposals on raising efficiency of work in this direction,” the source at a DCA said.
In the course of the talks, Tajik drug control chief briefed WB experts on the present drug situation in Tajikistan and efforts taken by the DCA and other law enforcement agencies to fight drug trafficking and money laundry in the country.
Mr. Greenberg joined the World Bank in 2003 as Senior Counsel in the Legal Vice Presidency and now serves in the Financial Market Integrity Unit (FPDFI) where he helps to design and implement the Bank’s anti-money laundering and combating financing of terrorism program. He is FPDFI’s Task Team Leader on Illegal Logging and Money Laundering and Asset Recovery. Among other organizations, he is working with the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and the Eastern and Southern Africa Anti Money Laundering Group.
