With around 26 billion connected devices in 2019, forecasted to grow to up 75 billion by 2025, the trust on the internet and the ICT made the world extremely exposed to new cybercrime attacks. The emerge of the Dark Web has favoured the virtual invisible criminals to stay connected and openly trade weapons, drugs or contract killings. Bitcoin has played an increasing role in all illegal activities conducted in this realm.

This means that all criminal justice authorities need, more than ever, basic skills in order to cope with this trend and to cooperate not only at the domestic, but also at the international level.

Under the iPROCEEDS project, a “Case simulation exercise on cybercrime and financial investigations” is conducted in Tirana, Albania, from 4 to 7 March 2019.

Prosecutors, cybercrime investigators, financial intelligence analysts, financial investigation officers and digital forensics specialists from Albania and Kosovo* are working together to undertake investigation of cybercrime and parallel financial investigations of online crime proceeds involving Dark Web and crypto currencies. They have shared information and evidence in order to investigate cybercrime and follow the criminal money flows and will eventually create a Joint Investigation Team to share intelligence across international borders.

• Agenda
• iPROCEEDS project website

^{*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSC 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.}