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17-06-2017

Specialized Training Program for Capacity Building on Combat-ing Money Laundering – Session I

On June 16-17 2017, Academy of Justice within its Continuous Training Program, conducted a Specialized Training for Capacity Building on Combating Money Laundering – Session I.

Purpose of this training was to enhance the par-ticipant’s knowledge with key elements of crimi-nal offences of Money laundering, in order to build and strengthen professional capacities in combating informal economy.

This training session elaborated on criminal of-fences of money laundering, terrorism funding and sanctions, weaknesses of financial institu-tions in regard to money laundering and terror-ism financing, as well as combating money laun-dering and terrorism funding in practice.

This training elaborated further on the applicable legal framework, competencies for investigating money laundering, as well as on the Financial Intelligence Unit, reporting entities to this cen-tral and independent national institution respon-sible for requesting, receiving, analyzing and disseminating to the competent authorities, dis-closures of information which concern potential money laundering and terrorist financing.

It was also discussed on related criminal offenc-es, basic problems with regard to examination of fraud and other specific issues that related to this specific type of crimes.

Beneficiaries of this training were judges from the Appeals Court and from basic courts, and prosecutors of the Special Prosecution of Koso-vo and of the basic instance.

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