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"President Islam Karimov has issued a resolution creating a financial intelligence service within the Prosecutor-General's Office, Interfax reported on May 17. The new service will monitor financial and property transactions, and identify individuals or legal entities engaged in such transactions. The creation of a financial intelligence service is intended to reinforce a January 1, 2006, law on countering the legalization of income from criminal activity and preventing the financing of terrorism." From RFE/RL Newsline, May 18, 2006.