On-site seminars were held in the Akmola and North Kazakhstan regional prosecutor’s offices – trainings on the problems of investigating financial crimes and recovering stolen assets. The training event was organized by the Law Enforcement Academy with the support of the US Embassy in Kazakhstan.
The training was attended by employees of the prosecutor’s office, anti-corruption service, economic investigation service, as well as judges.
The seminars were conducted by national trainers on financial investigations, trained on the basis of the Regional Hub, including employees of the Academy, the Committee of state bodies and the banking sector.
The purpose of the training is to improve the skills of specialists conducting investigations of financial crimes, sharing experience and training in advanced methods and methods for their identification.
Experts shared modern techniques for identifying and recovering stolen assets. They talked about the best world practices of effective monitoring and return of criminal capital exported abroad, the main areas of international mutual legal assistance in this area.
The students also got acquainted with the methods of revealing the facts of laundering criminal proceeds, managing assets through trusts, exploring the possibilities of financial intelligence units, methods of working with open sources of law enforcement services to recover stolen assets.
As part of the practical exercises, a simulation investigation was organized in a specially developed criminal case.
The training event showed great interest in enhancing regional cooperation between fiscal and law enforcement agencies to combat financial crime.
