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Closing Conference of the Structural Reform Support Programme (SRSP) initiative for Bulgaria
The Council of Europe’s Economic Crime and Cooperation Division (ECCD) organised the online Closing Conference of the Structural Reform Support Programme (SRSP) initiative “Enhancing capabilities of Bulgarian authorities to effectively mitigate money laundering and terrorist financing risks”, on...
Representatives of three EU Member States shared expertise and were provided practical guidance on assessing ML/TF risks related to legal entities
On 28 November 2022, the Council of Europe’s Economic Crime and Cooperation Division (ECCD) organised in collaboration with the European Commission Directorate General for Structural Reform Support (DG REFORM) and the Financial Intelligence Unit of Slovakia a workshop on ML/TF Risk Assessment of...
Awareness raising workshop on ML/TF risks associated with Politically Exposed Persons in Bulgaria
On 17 November 2022, the Council of Europe’s Economic Crime and Cooperation Division organised an awareness-raising workshop on Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (ML/TF) risks associated with Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs). The event took place in Sofia, following a number of targeted...
Training on investigating and prosecuting terrorist financing cases for Bulgarian competent authorities
As part of its ongoing efforts aimed at supporting Bulgarian authorities with the implementation of the Action plan for mitigating risks of money laundering and terrorism financing (ML/TF) – developed pursuant to the Council of Europe ML/TF National Risk Assessment Methodology – the Council of...
Awareness-raising workshop on AML/CFT obligations for the Money Value and Transfer Services (MVTS) in Bulgaria
On 7 November 2022, the Council of Europe Economic Crime and Cooperation Division organised the “Awareness-raising workshop on Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) obligations for the Money Value and Transfer Services (MVTS) in Bulgaria: red flag indicators...
Regional Workshop “Risk-Based AML/CFT Supervision: Effective Assessment and Mitigation of Emerging Money Laundering/Terrorist Financing Risks”
On 27-28 October 2022, the Council of Europe’s Economic Crime and Cooperation Division, in cooperation with the European Commission Directorate General for Structural Reform Support (DG REFORM) and the Bank of Portugal, held a multi-country Workshop on “Risk-Based AML/CFT Supervision: Effective...
Bulgarian obliged entities to enhance mitigation of risks associated with virtual assets service providers
On 26 October 2022, over 88 representatives of Bulgarian Obliged Entities as well as representatives of Bulgarian Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) supervisory authorities participated in a Workshop on “Mitigation of money laundering / terrorist financing...
Bulgarian Financial Supervisory Authorities exchange on challenges to the implementation of sanctions for AML/CFT breaches
On 24-25 October 2022, the Council of Europe’s Economic Crime and Cooperation Division organised a workshop on “Effective implementation of sanctions for AML/CFT breaches” in Sofia, Bulgaria. The event took place following a number of targeted Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of...
Promoting effective ML/TF regulation and supervision framework for the NPO sector in Bulgaria
As a part of the Structural Reform Support Programme (SRSP) initiative for Bulgaria “Enhancing capabilities of Bulgarian authorities to effectively mitigate money laundering and terrorist financing risks”, the Council of Europe Economic Crime and Cooperation Division (ECCD), in cooperation with...
Raising awareness on the NPO sector terrorist financing risk assessment process of Bulgaria
On 12 July 2022, the Council of Europe's Economic Crime and Cooperation Division (ECCD) organised an awareness raising Workshop on the Non-Profit Organisations (NPOs)’ sector terrorist financing risk assessment process of Bulgaria, as a targeted outreach activity towards the NPO representatives...
Conference on the Non-Profit Organisations (NPO) Sectoral Terrorist Financing Risk Assessment
As a part of the Structural Reform Support Programme (SRSP) initiative for Bulgaria “Enhancing capabilities of Bulgarian authorities to effectively mitigate money laundering and terrorist financing risks”, the Council of Europe Economic Crime and Cooperation Division (ECCD), in cooperation with...
Supporting Bulgarian authorities with improving its Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Action Plan and ensuring its effective implementation
Throughout the past few years, the Council of Europe Economic Crime and Cooperation Division (ECCD) has provided constant support to Bulgarian authorities in enhancing the jurisdiction’s Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) system through the identification of...
Launching the NPO Sector Terrorist Financing Risk Assessment in Bulgaria
On 28 January 2022, the Council of Europe Economic Crime and Cooperation Division (ECCD) conducted an on-line training for the Bulgarian authorities on the implementation of the recently developed Council of Europe Methodology on the Non-Profit Organisations’ (NPOs) Sectoral Terrorist Financing...
Workshop on conducting Sectorial Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Risk Assessment of Virtual Assets and Virtual Assets Service Providers
On the 15th of November of 2021, the Economic Crime and Cooperation Division of the Council of Europe held a full-day online workshop to present and train the participants of nine countries on the recently developed Council of Europe Methodology for the Sectorial Assessment of Money Laundering...
Bulgaria begins conceptualising the AML/CFT Action Plan
On the 10th of September, the Council of Europe’s Economic Crime and Cooperation Division conducted an on-line workshop for Bulgarian authorities on how to prepare for the development of the National Action Plan to counter money laundering and terrorist financing. The main aim of the workshop was...
Continuation of cooperation on enhancing capabilities of Bulgarian authorities to effectively mitigate money laundering and terrorism financing risks
The first virtual meeting of the CoE/EU Project Enhancing capabilities of Bulgarian authorities to effectively mitigate money laundering and terrorist financing risks took place on 30 July 2020. It was attended by the main beneficiaries in Bulgaria, namely the Bulgarian Financial Intelligence...