Leila K. Arenova

The article is a continuation of a number of scientific studies on the criminalization of financing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, as a legal and financial response of countries to the recommendations of the intergovernmental commission on financial monitoring — Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering or as is customary in our Russian-speaking environment — The Group for the Development of Financial Measures to Combat Money Laundering, which was the developer of International Standards on countering the Legalization of Criminal Proceeds and the Financing of terrorism, the Proliferation of Weapons of mass Destruction, the recommendations fall into the interdisciplinary field of international public, civil, contract law and the sciences of criminal law and criminalistics cycles. At the same time, they have international regulations and, accordingly, implementations into the national legislation of the participating countries of the anti-washing system. 

The regional group presented by the type of Group for the Development of Financial Measures to Combat Money Laundering includes some countries of the former Soviet Union — Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, as well as foreign countries India and China. 

The process of criminalizing the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is currently being updated as a novelty in the field of anti-money laundering, terrorist financing, and financing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and involves the development of a certain set of legal measures and tools.