Washington, D.C., United States of America December 2019

W-T-W Women and Finance participated again together with Members of Parliament in Washington at the Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum. The former Congressman Robert Pittenger organizes the conference on a rotation basis between Washington and a European capital. Next meeting will take place in May in Hungary.

The forum took place with about 340 participants from 80 countries in the Dirksen Building of the Senate. This year’s focus was on the control of financial flows that make the deadly triangle of terror, corruption and organized crime possible in the first place…
2019 DC Forum Report

Mr. Mariano FEDERICI, Chair of the Egmont Group, Egmont Group Executive Secretary, spoke at the Parliamentary Intelligence Security Forum in Washington, D.C.

Mr. FEDERICI explained to Members of Parliament what an FIU is, its mandate, functions, legal framework, legal powers and the necessity to have FIUs that are autonomous and operationally independent. Last year the Chair also underlined the adopted
UN Resolution 2462 that stresses the key role of FIU in the AML/CFT Chain.

Andreas Frank from Germany was focusing on the fight against Money Laundering (AML) and Countering the Financing of Terror (CFT).
As an AML/CFT expert he serves as an advisor to the Bundestag, the Council of Europe (CoE) and the European Parliament’s PANA committee (Committee of Inquiry to investigate alleged contraventions and maladministration in the application of Union law in relation to money laundering, tax avoidance and tax evasion) as well as to the European Parliament’s TAX3 committee (Special Committee on Financial Crimes, Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance).

See his remarkable speech:
Hybrid Warfare, Money Laundering, Offshore Structures /PDF

Congressman Pittenger with Members of the Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum Steering Committee, at a post-forum planning breakfast. Dr Csaba Hende (left) will host next meeting in Mai in Hungary. Also at the table the Honorable Emanuelis Zingeris from Lithuania, Founder W-T-W Women and Finance Dagmar Frank and Mr. Mariano Federici, President Financial Intelligence Unit.

Cartoon: www.w-t-w.org/en/liza-donnelly

Past Event:
On 20 June 2019 Congressman Robert Pittenger and Hon. Sonia Krimi hosted the 14th Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum in Paris France.