Yerevan /Mediamax/. Armenia continues to assist Nagorno-Karabakh Republic## (NKR) to adopt money laundering striking system, stated in Yerevan today Head of the Financial Monitoring Center of the Central Bank of Armenia Daniel Azatyan.

As Mediamax agency reports, Daniel Azatyan informed, that regulations and three-year strategy of the Center for Financial Monitoring created in the structure of the Ministry of Finance of NKR have been developed and approved.

“Given measurements are implemented in accordance to the law of NKR “About struggle against money-laundering and crime financing” adopted December 26, 2007 and effective since April 8 of the current year”- said Daniel Azatyan.

He also noted that in the course of 2007 the Center of Financial Monitoring of CBA has already received 39 signals of possible cases of money-laundering from financial structures and law enforcement bodies. As for him, the banks of Armenia in 2007 have reported 27 cases of suspicious bargains.

The Center of Financial Monitoring of the CBA have initiated 35 cases, 11 of which have already been directed to the law enforcement structures. Today one crime case is initiated.