The Council of Europe in cooperation with the Supreme Court of Georgia organised an online workshop on “Best practices of adjudication of money laundering and other economic crime cases”.

The meeting was organised for the judges of the Chamber of Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of Georgia, with direct contribution from an international Council of Europe expert judge with extensive experience in serious economic crimes and asset recovery cases. The Supreme Court judges seized the opportunity of this exclusive event to discuss trends and challenges generally faced by judges, in Georgia and internationally, when dealing with money laundering and other economic crime cases as well as confiscation of proceeds from crime. The discussion led to finding relevant solutions to address legal and practical issues identified by the judges in their professional activity in the area of economic crime. The event was considered highly relevant and useful by its participants, who requested to continue the exercise through follow-up editions of similar thematic workshops, to provide further reflection and practical guidance on how to deal with economic crimes and asset recovery from a judicial perspective.

This training is a part of a series of activities designed to support the national authorities to improve frameworks and operational capacities for investigation, prosecution and adjudication of corruption, money laundering/financing of terrorism (ML/FT) and other economic crime cases.

The activity was organised in the framework of the project “Enhancing the systems of prevention and combating corruption, money laundering and terrorist financing in Georgia”, funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe and implemented by the Council of Europe within their Partnership for Good Governance II.