Training Activity on topic, “The attack on criminal assets: a comprehensive manual on money laundering and recovery of assets”

The School of Magistrates, on 8 – 9 April, 2024, organized the training activity on topic: 

Money laundering and recovery of assets, with the support of the project of the European Union EU4Focal/IPA 2020, “Fight against organized crime in Albania through criminal and financial investigation – EU4FOCAL.” 

The training activity was realized with the experts of the draft of the manual.

Purposes of this training:

• Presentation to prosecutors of the Republic of the new manual on money laundering, which is projected and drafted by an inter-institutional work group supported by the project, “Fight against organized crime in Albania through criminal and financial investigation – EU4FOCAL,” financed by the European Commission. Representatives of experience by the General Prosecution, Special Prosecution, General Directory of State Police, Agency of Financial Intelligence, Ministry of Law and the School of Magistrates, have contributed individually and collectively to reflect in the manual the features of the Albanian legislation, as well as underline the current and future necessities of prosecution capacities of the General Prosecution in Albania. 
• The understanding of manual by participants but also by judges and prosecutors on duty not as a theoretical manual but as a very practical document to be used by magistrates and judicial police that deals with financial crimes and money laundering crime in their daily work. 

In activities:  

Participants were familiarized with different chapters of the manual such as:

• Chapter 1 – concept and definition of the General Prosecution according to different international instruments in force, (in the level of the United Nations, Council of Europe and European Union) and the Albanian legislation;
• Chapter 2 – The recovery of assets;
• Chapters 3 and  4 – Financial investigations and criminal & procedural cases; 
• Chapter 5 – International cooperation in the prosecutions of the General Prosecution and the recovery of assets.

In the training activity were used combined methods of power point presentation, discussions of questions, presentation of examples of practice, etc. In this training participated prosecutors of different levels of prosecution.