Investigating cybercrime and its financial gain – working together effectively: a novel initiative comprising 12 countries from the Eastern Partnership Region, South-eastern Europe and Turkey will be launched through a Cybercrime Coordination and Partnership Exercise to explore and establish closer links between professional communities of cybercrime investigators, cybersecurity players, financial intelligence/investigation officers and the private sector.

The exercise will be organised by the Cybercrime Programme Office of the Council of Europe, through the two joint projects of European Union and the Council of Europe – Cybercrime@EAP III  and iPROCEEDS – in close cooperation with Data Exchange Agency of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, in Tbilisi, Georgia from 24 to 28 of April 2017.

The simulation exercise aims at addressing the problems of coordination and cooperation in the most practical way and will require the participants to detect cyber security incidents against critical infrastructure, apply digital forensics skills, detect and handle suspicious financial transactions and money laundering and recover data through international cooperation channels.

The action will involve 80 prosecutors, cybercrime investigators, financial investigation/intelligence and cyber security specialists from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova (Republic of), Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine,  “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” and Turkey. A multinational team of experts from France, Ireland, Romania and the United Kingdom, acting together with CERT.GOV.GE, will coordinate the exercise.

Cybercrime@EAP III: A joint project of the European Union and the Council of Europe on improving Public/Private Cooperation on Cybercrime and Electronic Evidence in the Eastern Partnership Region[1]. The project has duration of 25 months and a budget of 1.2 million Euros.

iPROCEEDS: The joint project of the European Union and the Council of Europe on targeting crime proceeds on the Internet in South-eastern Europe and Turkey under the Instrument of Pre-Accession (IPA) covers Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, Turkey and Kosovo*[2] The project has duration of 42 months and a budget of Euro 5.56 million.

Journalists are invited to the plenary session on Monday, 24 April, 09h30 – 10h30.

For further details, please see the projects website (iPROCEEDS/EAP III) and/or contact:

CONTACT: