NewsCEPOL Financial Investigations In-Service Training on Challenges of multi-agency cooperation
CEPOL Financial Investigations In-Service Training on ‘Challenges of multiagency cooperation in regard to effective financial investigations’, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The fifth tailor made national training within the framework of the capacity building project Western Balkans Financial Investigation In-Service Training 2017-2019 (FI Project)1 implemented by CEPOL took place from 1 to 5 April in in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The training offered 29 law enforcement officers from law enforcement organisations such as Police, FIU, Customs, Tax authority and Prosecution Office the opportunity to gain in depth understanding of the multi-agency cooperation concerning the effective financial investigations. More specifically, topics such as:
- Multi-agency cooperation during financial investigations – B&H experience
- Prosecutor led investigations and multi-agency cooperation during financial investigations
- Cooperation with private sector
- Legal issues and best practices of special investigation techniques
- New mechanisms and challenges of international cooperation (JIT, EIO, etc)
- Investigation of off shore entities in connection with tax evasion and money laundering with workgroup
- Improvement of asset tracking and recovery capability and skills
- Use of various information sources (OSINT) and Intelligence led investigations
The event hosted speakers from Europol and experts in the field from Spain, Portugal, Romania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Czech Republic.
The objective of the training was to enable participants to:
- use the competencies of law enforcement officials in financial investigations
- be aware of gathering evidence of crime through financial investigations and usage of new techniques
- improve awareness of EU law enforcement agencies
- create sustainable professional networks and strengthen multidisciplinary cooperation between law enforcement on national and international level
- seize, freeze and confiscate assets of organised crime groups through financial investigations
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[1]The capacity-building project Western Balkans Financial Investigation In-Service Training 2017-2019 (FI Project) aims at developing and sustaining institutional capacity of the law enforcement agencies of the beneficiary countries (Albania, Montenegro, Serbia, North Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Kosovo*) in order to prevent, investigate and prosecute transnational organised crime and financing terrorism. The FI project is funded by the European Commission under the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPAII) and it is an integral part of the second IISG Pillar (WBCSCi).
*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.
