No. 2, Year 4
Second Quarter 2006

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 Costa Rican financial analysts get training

In mid-June, CICAD's Anti-Money Laundering Unit held a training workshop on information analysis tools and techniques of financial intelligence for the staff of Costa Rica’s financial intelligence unit. The workshop was organized with the Costa Rican Institute on Drugs (ICD) and took place on June 12-15. It drew 10 FIU analysts that received training in using a specialized software application employed in financial intelligence and strategic and operational analysis techniques.

Additional training was provided to 38 bank compliance officers, the staff in charge of evaluating suspicious transactions and reporting them to Costa Rican FIU according to the parameters established by the government. The course also dealt with documentation techniques and due-diligence on suspicious transaction reports with the aim of producing better input for the analysis carried out by the FIU.

This capability building effort is part of a project to create and strengthen FIUs in Central America. This project has similar capability-building workshops planned in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama and the Dominican Republic.

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