Training of judges and prosecutors in the field of financial-accounting expertise

22. 04. 2020

At the National Institute of Justice „face-to-face” training activities changed online. In addition to the e-learning courses provided on the ILIAS platform of the NIJ, during this period are also held some seminars scheduled in the Modular Plan for continuous training. Thus, on April 21 and 22, 2020, nine judges and nine prosecutors participated in the professional development course dedicated to financial-accounting expertise.

The training sessions were delivered online by the Council of Europe experts Catalina Stroe and Eduard Nagy. For two days, several topics related to financial-accounting expertise were addressed, among which: Basic concepts regarding financial-accounting expertise and the functions of the financial-accounting expert; Financial investigation in cases of corruption and fraud; Types of procurement fraud and links to corruption; Alert signals in the detection of procurement fraud; Standards in the field of financial-accounting analysis reports; Financial-accounting expertise in courts, etc.

At the same time, the participants had the opportunity to analyze and comment on various case studies on investigating fraud and corruption in the banking industry and the pharmaceutical sector, as well as setting the objectives of an expertise in a case of procurement fraud.

The online training of judges and prosecutors was organized by the National Institute of Justice and the EU/CoE Joint Project "Controlling Corruption through Law Enforcement and Prevention (CLEP)".