Centre for Monitoring and Research (CeMI) in cooperation with the Association for Democratic Initiatives (ADI) Sarajevo and Transparency Serbia, organized a seminar titled “Financial Investigations in cases of criminal offenses of money laundering ” which was held in the period from 21 – 22 June 2018, in the hotel “Verde” in Podgorica.

The seminar was attended by representatives of judicial institutions, police, as well as other institutions involved in the processes of conducting financial investigations in cases of criminal offenses of money laundering from Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The aim of the seminar is to improve cooperation and coordination between institutions responsible for carrying out financial investigations, as well as the law enforcement agencies and agencies at the state and regional level.

The seminar in Podgorica is the first in a series of three seminars that are planned to be held in Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The next seminar will be held in Sarajevo from 28 – 29 of June 2018, while the seminar in Belgrade will be held from 09 – 11 July 2018.

The seminar in Podgorica, as well as the seminars in Sarajevo and Belgrade, are organized within the project “Strengthening Investigation and Prosecution Capacities in the Western Balkan Countries – Financial Investigations as a Tool to Combat Organized Crime and Corruption,” funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Agenda can be downloaded here: Agenda-seminar-Finansijske-istrage-u-predmetima-krivicnih-djela-pranja-novca_Podgorica