As part of the project "Preventing money laundering and terrorist financing in Serbia", 6-7 September, training was held for employees of the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption and the Administration for the Prevention of Money Laundering on reporting suspicious transactions, as well as workshops on inter-institutional cooperation between prosecution offices and the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (APC).
During the first day, the importance of cooperation between competent institutions was emphasized in order to quickly and efficiently detect and process corruption-related criminal offences, focus on different aspects of concealment of property and money laundering. The participants were introduced to indicators of money laundering that can be detected by analysing asset declarations of public officials, experiences and examples from international and domestic practice, as well as procedures to be followed in case of suspected money laundering.
The focus of the second day of the workshop on inter-institutional cooperation, was more effective cooperation of the preventive and repressive system for the fight against corruption. The participants were presented with practical advice on improvement of quality of the reports submitted by the APC to the prosecution, and had the opportunity to elaborate on possible solutions to concrete issues which arise in cooperation of these two institutions.
Representatives of the Agency, the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office, higher public prosecutor's offices in Belgrade, Niš and Novi Sad, the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Niš, as well as the Third Basic Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, during the discussion, exchanged opinions on the current level of cooperation, on ways to improve it, with emphasis on procedures in the area of property and income verification of public officials, conflicts of interest, and on the application of relevant provisions of the Law on Prevention of Corruption.
The activity took place within the Project “Preventing Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in Serbia”, funded by the Swedish International Development Agency, and implemented by the Council of Europe.
