News and press releases

Twenty-five officers from the Tajik Border Troops, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Customs Service and the Drug Control Agency completed a one-week workshop on working with the media on 20 October 2017 in Dushanbe. The workshop was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe.

Best practices in countering money laundering through offshore zones were shared at an OSCE-supported seminar for representatives from Turkmenistan’s Ministry of Finance, its law enforcement and supervisory bodies, several commercial banks and other relevant agencies, which took place in Ashgabat from 11 to13 October 2017.

ALMATY, 13 October 2017- An OSCE-supported five-day train-the-trainer course on countering cybercrime for representatives of Kazakhstan’s law enforcement agencies concluded on 13 October 2017 in Almaty.

Podgorica, 4 October 2017 – Forensic evidence and the application of modern forensic standards in the judiciary were the focus of an OSCE-supported seminar held on 3 and 4 October in Podgorica. Particular emphasis was placed on the treatment of evidence, forensic analytics, explosions, DNA analysis and crime scene investigation.

Local police officers from Mongolia completed a week-long OSCE-supported course on trends and tendencies of organized crime, with a specific focus on trafficking in human beings, which took place from 2 to 6 October 2017 in Ulaanbaatar.

BISHKEK, 27 September 2017- Kazakh specialists shared their experience in the development of an electronic unified state registry of crimes and misdemeanours and other software applications used by the offices of the public prosecutor in Kazakhstan with representatives of the Kyrgyz General Prosecutor’s Office (GPO) and other stakeholders during a three-day visit of the Kazakh General Prosecutor’s staff to Bishkek, supported by the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, from 20 to 23 September 2017.

Financial gain is the main incentive for most serious and organized crime networks, and stripping them of their proceeds is the most effective way to dismantle them. Yet according to Europol, only 1.2 per cent of illicit proceeds are confiscated in the European Union, leaving 98.8 per cent at the disposal of criminals. Why is only such a small fragment of crime proceeds confiscated? What can be done to strengthen criminal justice measures to recover illegal assets and disrupt criminal groups? These are the key questions addressed by participants in the 2017 OSCE Annual Police Experts Meeting entitled “Crime Should Not Pay” which started today in the Hofburg in Vienna.