Conference in the field of combating money laundering and recovery of the crime damage, organized by the NIM of Romania

21. 11. 2022

A group of beneficiaries of the National Institute of Justice participated, between November 17-18, 2022,  in the conference “Combating money laundering and recovery of the crime damage”, organized by the National Institute of Magistracy (NIM) in Bucharest.

Among the objectives of the meeting were the identification of the essential and controversial aspects of the judicial practice regarding corruption and economic-financial crimes, the analysis of the factual situations that form the subject of criminal prosecution and trial in the case of economic-financial operations with an extraneous element, interpretation of the factual situations from a double perspective – legal-economical, deepening the national framework and international standards in the field of money laundering, recovery of the crime damage and confiscation, identifying the competences and attributions of the National Agency for the Management of Seized Assets etc.

We mention that the participation of the national law representatives at the trainings organized by the National Institute of Magistracy take place within the project ”Strengthening the justice system by organizing expertise transfer missions addressed to judges and prosecutors from the Republic of Moldova”, implemented by the National Institute of Magistracy due to the support of the Agency for International Development Cooperation (RoAid), under the coordination of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, due to the support provided for the judicial system reform. The cooperation directions of the project concern the involvement of trainers, judges and prosecutors from the Republic of Moldova in professional development activities organized by the NIM, study visits to institutions within the Romanian judicial system, as well as the invitation as experts of NIM trainers to trainings for Moldovan magistrates.