The project “Preventing Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in Serbia” is supporting the Administration for Prevention of Money Laundering of the Republic of Serbia in dissemination of the results of the latest ML/TF National Risk Assessment. A series of workshops about the relevance of the ML/TF NRA and its impact on internal policies is being organised with the support of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce and Judicial Academy in three different regions of the Republic of Serbia. The second set of two workshops has been organised in the region of Nis, on 22 and 23 September 2022. On the first day, 40 representatives of supervisors and obliged entities (mainly real estate agents, accountants and online gaming service providers) gathered to discuss the impact of NRA findings on their internal policies. On the following day, the representatives of prosecution and judiciary from Nis and surrounding cities were familiarised with key findings on the trends and typologies of money laundering present in Serbia, cross border threats and main predicate offences to money laundering.

During the workshops, the participants had the opportunity to get acquainted with the international standards and application in practice of measures against ML and TF in line with the updated and reliable outcomes of the ML and TF risk assessment process. Coordinators of the NRA presented their experience in the development of the risk assessment and key findings. The workshop dedicated particular attention to the mitigation of risks affecting the real estate sector, the gaming services and accounting.

The Project “Preventing Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in Serbia” is funded by Sweden, represented by the Swedish International Development Agency and implemented by the Council of Europe.