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On Friday, 1 March the APG Co-Chair Deputy Commissioner Ian McCartney, alongside the APG Secretariat farewelled Gordon Hook after 18 years as the Executive Secretary of the APG.

March is International Fraud Prevention Month.

The Executive Office of Anti-Money Laundering & Counter Terrorism Financing will host the 2024 APG Annual Meeting and Technical Assistance & Training Forum from 22-27 September 2024 at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi.

On 21 December 2023 the Canadian Co-Chair, Associate Assistant Deputy Minister of Finance, Julien Brazeau, and the APG Executive Secretary, Dr Gordon Hook, met with the Executive Director of the UN’s CTED, Ms Natalia Gherman, in New York.

The Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering publishes regional typologies reports on an annual basis to assist stakeholders better understand the nature of existing and emerging ML, TF and PF threats and pursue effective strategies in response.

The 2023 APG Typologies & Capacity Building Workshop was hosted by the government of India in collaboration with the APG and World Bank from 28 November to 1 December 2023 in New Delhi, India.

From 20-24 November 2023, the APG held its second fully in-person Assessor Training Workshop since 2019 in Ottawa, Canada.

In October 2021, the APG commenced a project on illicit financial flows arising from illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. This Issues Paper is the final output from that project.

An APG-focussed training course on the FATF standards was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 6 to 10 November 2023. The workshop was generously supported by Japan and hosted by Bank Negara Malaysia at the Lanai Kijang Training Institute in Malaysia