Project “Strengthening Investigation and Prosecution Capacities in the Western Balkan Countries – Financial Investigations as a Tool to Combat Organized Crime and Corruption”

May 17, 2017 / Comments Off on Project “Strengthening Investigation and Prosecution Capacities in the Western Balkan Countries – Financial Investigations as a Tool to Combat Organized Crime and Corruption”

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In 2017 and 2018, Association for Democratic Initiatives Sarajevo (ADI), in cooperation with The Centre for Monitoring and Research (CeMI), Montenegro and Transparency Serbia, is implementing a project titled “Strengthening Investigation and Prosecution Capacities in the Western Balkan Countries – Financial Investigations as a Tool to Combat Organized Crime and Corruption”. Overall objective of the project is to contribute to improvement of the efficiency of the judicial and law enforcement systems in the Western Balkan countries. Specific objectives of the project are: to enhance operational capacities of prosecutors, judges and law enforcement officers to carry out financial investigations in corruption and organized crime cases, and to enhance cooperation and coordination between institutions responsible for conducting financial investigations, law enforcement bodies and related agencies both at national and regional level. Activities of the project are: legal framework and practice of conducting financial investigations assessed through three country reports, seminars, roundtables, study visit to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and final regional conference.

Implementation of the project: April 15, 2017 – April 14, 2018

Project is supported by the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Montenegro.

Project factsheet can be downloaded here.