Within CoE/EU’s Horizontal Facility for Western Balkans and Turkey Phase II – Action against Economic Crime in Montenegro (AEC-MNE), an assessment mission with regard to State Audit Institutions’ capacities for detecting fraud and corruption cases and enforcement of its recommendations to audited entities took place on 1 April 2021.

The objective of this assessment mission was to collect information on existing issues in communication exchange between the State Audit Institutions (SAI) and Montenegrin Parliament, the effectiveness of SAI’s recommendations, its capacities to detect fraud and corruption and methods of communication with the prosecution. Collected information will be used for the development of guidelines including key findings, as well as a manual for detection and processing of cases of fraud and corruption through audit procedures.