Deepening of the professional qualification of the law enforcement authorities in the field of fight against corruption, anti-money laundering and combating terrorist financing
National Organized Crime Agency ·Czechia
About this project
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt"><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF"><span style="font-family: "OpenSans", serif"><span style="color: #212529">The project has two main goals. The first is to increase the capacity of the Police of the Czech Republic (PCR) to fight against corruption, anti-money laundering, and combating terrorist financing. The second is to improve the capacity of the PCR to catch up with the latest developments on identifying illegal activities.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt"><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF"><span style="font-family: "OpenSans", serif"><span style="color: #212529">The MONEYVAL report 2018 stated several recommendations for the PCR: </span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt"><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF"><span style="font-family: "OpenSans", serif"><span style="color: #212529">- to enhance the quality of cooperation between PCR and the Financial Analytical Office (FIU),</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt"><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF"><span style="font-family: "OpenSans", serif"><span style="color: #212529">- to increase the number of convictions for money laundering cases, and </span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt"><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF"><span style="font-family: "OpenSans", serif"><span style="color: #212529">- to enhance the training of the financial investigators.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt"><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF"><span style="font-family: "OpenSans", serif"><span style="color: #212529">The project aims to deepen the qualifications of the National Organized Crime Agency‘s (NOCA) experts in the fight against corruption, anti-money laundering, and combating terrorist financing and to provide them with modern IT tools to fight these types of criminal offences. The project also focuses on enhancing the quality of cooperation between the PCR and the FIU via common trainings together with the Public Prosecutor´s Office representatives. The trainings will result in increased expert knowledge and better interinstitutional cooperation.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt"><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF"><span style="font-family: "OpenSans", serif"><span style="color: #212529">Purchase of the special software designed to trace virtual currencies will enable us to fight effectively against virtual currencies' more and more frequent misuse. Altogether, police experts equipped with high-level qualification and modern software will be able to deal with a sophisticated crime much better than they can do at the moment. We will detect higher numbers of money laundering cases and cases of the use of virtual currencies for illegal purposes. We also aspire to improve the next MONEYVAL evaluation thanks to the project implementation.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p>