Up to 25 representatives of the Prosecutor’s Office, State Security Service, Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Financial Monitoring Service (Financial Intelligence Unit of Georgia) and judges will attend a two-day training on “Seizure, Confiscation and Recovery of Proceeds of Economic Crime”.

The participants will discuss good practices on criminal proceeding for asset confiscation, non-conviction based confiscation and forfeiture, and relevant international legal framework, Georgia’s asset recovery regime and challenges faced by the practitioners. The participants will also analyse the possible ways of maximizing success and mitigating risk of failure in international mutual legal assistance. An essential part of the training will focus on analysis of case studies on enforcement of a confiscation order.