Fight against Organised Crime in Albania through Criminal and Financial Investigation – EU4FOCAL
Fundación Internacional y para Iberoamérica de Administración y Políticas Públicas – FIIAPP
Beneficiaries:
Albanian State Police, Customs, Financial Investigation Unit, General Prosecution Office (GPO) and SPAK
03.2021 - 07.2024
Overall Objective
The general aim is to improve the fight against organised crime and drugs trafficking in Albania through criminal and financial investigations based on proactive and intelligence investigative methods.
Summary of the Project
Organised crime and drug trafficking in Albania represent a serious threat to security and stability in the country.
Proactive and intelligence-led financial investigations are intended to have a significant impact on reducing this problem and strengthening the institutional and legal structure in Albania.
The intervention is oriented to improve the technical and material capacities of national law enforcement agencies and to contribute to an improved inter-agency coordination, synchronic information exchange, and regulatory and procedural harmonisation.
Activities
Technical Assistance, training, mentoring, peer-to-peer assistance, study visits, procurement of equipment.
Results
Result 1: Prosecutors´ offices and SPO capacities for effective financial investigations and tackling money laundering are enhanced.
Result 2: Albanian LEAs and FIU technical capacities to fight organised crime, money laundering and finance-related crimes are improved.
Result 3: Albanian LEAs, Customs and FIU intelligence and investigation operational capacities to fight organised crime, money laundering and finance-related crimes are improved.
