The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of Angola, celebrating 10 years of activity in 2021, in collaboration with the European Union project to support the consolidation of the rule of law in PALOP and Timor-Leste (PACED) and the GLACY+ project hosted, between 20 and 22 July, the annual forum of the FIUs of the Portuguese Speaking African Countries (PALOP) and East Timor. The forum focused on “Streamlining parallel financial investigation in cybercrime cases: trends and challenges”, tackling topics such as: virtual assets and related investigations trends, interagency cooperation when conducting parallel financial investigations and key challenges when accessing data by the criminal justice authorities for the search, seizure and confiscation of proceeds from online crimes.
80 participants from Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, East Timor, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe had the opportunity to further strengthen the dialogue and cooperation amongst cybercrime units, prosecutors’ offices, financial investigators and FIUs and exchange experiences and knowledge, including on the benefits of acceding to the Budapest Convention. Speakers from Interpol, Brazil and Portugal engaged in discussions with the participants, sharing best practices on new cybercrime trends and ways to tackle cybercrime at the international level.
