In May 2024, the CyberSEE Project joined forces with the U.S. Department of Justice for putting together a series of capacity building activities aiming to increase the knowledge of criminal justice representatives on conducting cybercrime investigations and handling of electronic evidence.
On 13-16 May, the Meeting of the US–Eastern European Cryptocurrency Working Group held in Budapest, Hungary gathered 47 police investigators, prosecutors, FIU analysts and asset recovery experts from 11 countries. The sessions included interactive discussions and practical exercises on the search and seizure of cryptocurrencies, enabling the participants to gain insights into relevant tools for analysing suspect transactions for attribution and confiscation, investigating dark markets, converting Bitcoin to Monero and Ransomware as a service.
On May 23-24, the Workshop on Electronic Evidence for Law Enforcement, Judges and Prosecutors held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina engaged participants from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and North Macedonia. The workshop featured live demonstrations and exercises on advanced financial forensics of online fraud schemes and crypto money laundering, methods to authenticate digital evidence, best practices for tracing cryptocurrencies and the criminal use of mixers, tumblers, NFTs and Darknet.
On 28-29 May, the Regional Workshop on Strategies for Law Enforcement Training on Cybercrime and Electronic Evidence held in Budva, Montenegro gathered high-level delegates from regional Police Academies, cybercrime investigators and trainers. They explored solutions to integrate modules on cybercrime and electronic evidence into their curricula, set up cohesive pools of trainers and develop training strategies. Domestic meetings were held with representatives from law enforcement training institutions of Albania, Montenegro, Serbia and Türkiye to discuss existing priorities, future needs, next steps, relevant partners and potential support of CyberSEE project for this process.
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