The Council of Europe, in collaboration with the Moldovan Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), has supported a two-day workshop on cash smuggling and anti-money laundering for twenty four customs officers from the Republic of Moldova. The Council of Europe experts presented the methods and techniques for physical transportation of cash, interviewing techniques during the cash control and emerging trends related to trade based money laundering. Red flags related to cash smuggling relevant for the Republic of Moldova, importance of joint intelligence teams and next steps for improving money laundering investigations and cash seizure in the country were also discussed at the workshop.

The workshop was organised within the joint European Union and Council of Europe Project on “Controlling corruption through law enforcement and prevention” (CLEP), implemented in the Republic of Moldova since 2017.