Within CoE/EU’s Horizontal Facility for Western Balkans and Turkey Phase II – Action against Economic Crime in Montenegro(AEC-MNE), the “Training of judiciary and police on processing money laundering cases - Module 1” took place in Tivat, on 19-20 November 2020.
Efficient processing and adjudicating of money laundering crimes lies at the very core of the requirements that Montenegro should meet in order to complete its EU accession process. The aim of this three-module training is to familiarise judges, prosecutors and police with concepts of methods, techniques and trends in money laundering, as well as to facilitate their understanding of evidence presented by the forensic accountants, evaluating grounds for use of special investigative measures, evaluating indictment.
The tailor-made training addressed the needs of the beneficiaries, as identified through a detailed questionnaire. The first module of the training was dedicated to the identification and corroboration of each individual element of the criminal offence of money laundering, by application of the Dutch six-step model and the Italian inferential reasoning and use of typologies. In addition, participants were acquainted with the practice of the European Court of Human Rights in this area. Furthermore, the participants practiced the acquired knowledge through case studies based on actual cases from the Netherlands and Italy.