OSCE launches online preparatory training course for Certified Fraud Examiner and Anti-Money Laundering Specialist

The OSCE Transnational Threats Department and the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities launched an online preparatory training course for certification as a Fraud Examiner and Anti-Money Laundering Specialist on 2 September 2020.

Participants from law enforcement agencies and prosecution offices of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and North Macedonia attended the launch.

The aim of the course, followed by a mentoring programme, is to prepare for professional certifications granted by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists and gain an in-depth expertise in anti-money laundering and fraud examination.

In his opening remarks, Ambassador James Gilmore, Permanent Representative of the United States Mission to the OSCE said: "Preventing and combating corruption is, and should remain, a key goal of the OSCE. We will continue to support efforts through the OSCE and elsewhere to build our partners’ capacity to fight it."

Ambassador Alena Kupchyna, OSCE Co-ordinator of Activities to Address Transnational Threats, stressed that the OSCE is highly committed to support its participating States in the fight against organized crime. “Our focus is in strengthening the capacities of law enforcement agencies to conduct effective financial investigations and co-operate at a regional and international level,” said Kupchyna.   

This training course is organized in the framework of the OSCE extra-budgetary project “Strengthening the fight against transnational crime in South-Eastern Europe through improved regional co-operation in asset seizure, confiscation, management and re-use”, funded by the United States of America, Germany, and Italy.

The project adopts a comprehensive approach to asset recovery by providing support to the entire cycle of asset seizure and asset confiscation. It includes three areas of intervention: financial investigations, assets seizure and asset confiscation; asset management and asset re-use.