OSCE trains police in targeting illicit proceeds of human trafficking

PRAGUE, 20 July 2012 – A three-day OSCE training seminar for police and financial investigators in how to identify, seize and confiscate criminal assets arising from human trafficking concluded today in Prague.

Some 30 participants from Eastern Europe, South Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia learned about how human traffickers profit from their crime, the national and  international instruments available to seize the proceeds of organized crime, as well as national best practices.

“Co-operation between countries and regions where trafficking occurs and where money is laundered is crucial for tracing financial activities related to human trafficking in order to reach the upper management of human trafficking criminal chains,” said Marco Kubny, deputy head of the Strategic Police Matters Unit of the OSCE’s Department on Addressing Transnational Threats.

The event, which is organized by the Department on Addressing Transnational Threats, follows on from a seminar on leveraging anti-money laundering regimes to combat human trafficking organized by the OSCE with the UN Office for Drugs and Crime in Vienna last October.