07.09.2023.
Within the Project “Preventing Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing“, implemented by the Council of Europe and supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, on September 6 and 7, the training for representatives of the Agency for Prevention of Corruption and the Administration for Prevention of Money Laundering on reporting suspicious transactions and the workshop on inter-institutional cooperation between the prosecution and the Agency for Prevention of Corruption were held.
In the opening session of the first day, Zeljko Radovanovic, Acting Director of the Administration for Prevention of Money Laundering, Dejan Damnjanovic, Director of the Agency for Prevention of Corruption, and Jasmina Milanović Ganic, Public Prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime, emphasized the importance of the cooperation of the competent institutions in order to promptly and efficiently detect and process criminal offenses with elements of concealment of assets, money laundering and other corrupt criminal offenses.
Expert of the Council of Europe, Claudio Stroligo, familiarized training participants with the indicators of money laundering that can appear in reports on the assets and income of public officials, and experiences and examples from international and domestic practice, as well as procedures in case of suspicion of money laundering.
On the second day, in the workshop on inter-institutional cooperation between the prosecution and the Agency for Prevention of Corruption, Miljko Radisavljevic, Public Prosecutor of the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office, emphasized the importance of linking the institutions, i.e., more effective cooperation of the preventive and repressive system for the fight against corruption. Mr. Damnjanovic agreed and added that it is necessary to continuously work on better communication and cooperation because it is in the common interest of all competent institutions to reduce the level of corruption in our country.
The representatives of the Agency, Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office, Higher Public Prosecutor’s Offices in Belgrade, Nis, and Novi Sad, Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Nis, and the Third Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade exchanged opinions on the current level of cooperation and the way of improvement, with an emphasis on procedures in the areas of the control of assets and income of public officials, conflicts of interest as well as the implementation of the relevant provisions of the Law on Prevention of Corruption.
