OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan supports seminars on countering cybercrimes in Kazakhstan
Two back-to-back online training seminars on criminal law and criminological characteristics of computer crimes, methodology for detecting and investigating criminal offenses committed using information and communication technologies (ICT) concluded on 30 April 2021 in Nur-Sultan.
The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan organized the events in co-operation with the Law Enforcement Academy under the Prosecutor General’s office/Hub to Counter Global Threats.
Some 25 law enforcement officials from across Kazakhstan took part in the seminars. International experts from Belarus familiarized participants with computer crimes concept, their causes and conditions, international legal regulation on combating these crimes, criminological characteristics of a high-tech criminal, and the main features of the criminological characteristics of the personality of a hacker. They also covered criminological characteristics of computer crimes committed using ICTs, their criminal and legal qualification, and international legal classification of these crimes.
These training events are part of the Programme Office’s multi-year efforts to build the law enforcement officers’ capacity to counter cybercrimes in Kazakhstan.