Updated: December 15, 2022
The MDTF-JSS in cooperation with the Republic Public Prosecutor Office organized one-day workshop on methodologies for detection, investigation and prosecution of money laundering cases. Prosecutors from the Netherlands national anti-money laundering service presented the Dutch legal framework and policies to 20 public prosecutors and police officers from Serbia. Since the Netherlands is frontrunner in prosecution of money laundering cases without predicate offence, the purpose of the workshop was exchange of experience and knowledge and identification of possibilities to apply the same approach in Serbia. Specifically, the discussion was focus on methods to detect signals to initiate money laundering investigations from thematic projects involving all relevant authorities based on the national risk assessment results and on the national anti-money laundering programme. The Dutch and Serbian prosecutors discussed a structural process to collect and evaluate qualitative inputs from policy, supervisory, law enforcement and private sector authorities thorough extensive surveys, meetings and interviews. The conclusion of the workshop was that the Serbian justice system can learn more from the Dutch colleagues on the domestic coordination and cooperation on anti-money laundering issues at the policy and operation levels and public-private partnership and information sharing to combat money laundering. The workshop was the first activity in this area. The road map for the further support will be developed in the cooperation with the Republic Public Prosecutor Office by end of January 2023.
