GELAVEX is currently constituted as one of the advisory parties of the OAS and has the role of Technical Secretariat trough the Department against Transnational Organized Crime (DTOC), in accordance with the provisions of Executive Order 16-01 Rev. 1 issued by the Secretary General of the OAS in July 2016, and that creates the DTOC.

GELAVEX is made up of two Sub-Working Groups: (1) Coordination between Financial Intelligence Units (FIU) and Criminal Investigation Organizations (OIC) and (2) International Cooperation and Confiscation.

The 53rd GELAVEX Meeting will be held on November 16, 2022 in Mexico City in a virtual format – in person and virtual and will be chaired by the Government of Mexico, through the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF), attached to the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit. During the event, the two working subgroups and the chair will discuss the following:

2021-2022:

Sub-Working Group on Coordination between Financial Intelligence Units (FIU) and Criminal Investigation Organizations (OIC):

1 A typology study of trade-based money laundering.

2 Development of a red flags guide to reporting on money laundering cases related to human trafficking.

3 An analysis of money laundering cases linked to environmental crimes.

Sub-Working Group on International Cooperation and Confiscation:

1 A study on best practices in coordination between asset forfeiture authorities in cases of money laundering linked to illicit arms trafficking, and their proper disposal.

2 Development of a guide to identification and investigation techniques in cases of money laundering related to political corruption

3 A regional diagnostic assessment of the status of the fight against cybercrime money laundering in OAS member states.

Objective

Presenting the products developed in accordance with the approved Work Plan and the recommendations agreed at the 51st GELAVEX Meeting, held from Mexico City, on November 16-17, 2021 as well as the approval of the Work Plan 2021-2022.