Mr Keelty made his comments in Perth at the 10th annual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Group on money laundering.
He and Dr Yunus Husein, who heads the Indonesian Financial Transactions Report and Analysis Centre and co-chairs the Asia-Pacific Group (APG), said money laundering and the financing of terrorism continued to pose major challenges for Asia-Pacific jurisdictions.
“The APG’s mandate is far from complete and the importance of working closely together through the APG to defeat money launderers and terrorists is a key strategy in this regional and global fight,” Mr Keelty said.
“Money laundering still remains a key to the financing of terrorism. There is a significant nexus between the financing of normal crime, particularly drug trafficking, which can be used to finance terrorism.”
Representatives from 35 jurisdictions and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the World Bank attended the meeting to share information.
Vietnam, the Solomon Islands and Nauru took their place at the think-tank for the first time.
The meeting aimed to provide technical assistance and training to speed up the process of implementing global standards to target money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
“The APG has been able to train and develop in many countries so that they have an understanding of typologies of money laundering techniques, the underground banking arrangements used in some economies,” Mr Keelty said.
“Certainly, from a terrorism perspective, we see alternate means of transferring funds or attempting to transfer funds or attempt(s) to move cash around the world occur as a result of workshops conducted by the APG.
“It’s clear that the work that we do has an impact but it’s also clear terrorist groups move very quickly to discover other methods to achieve the same ends so we have to be working together to keep on top of the issue.”
The meeting closes tomorrow.
AAP
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