About the seminar on improving the quality of financial crime investigation (Astana, February 27, 2017)

The Academy of law enforcement agencies has started a training seminar for law enforcement and fiscal officials on the topic: "Development of operational information and investigation of financial crimes".

The training was attended by representatives of the Presidential Administration, the financial monitoring Committee of the Ministry of Finance, the Embassy of the United Kingdom of great Britain and Northern Ireland in Kazakhstan, as well as experts From the national crime Agency of great Britain.

The purpose of the seminar is to improve the skills of students in the field of investigation of financial crimes, training in new ways and methods of detecting them.

Opening the seminar, acting first Vice-rector of the Academy nail Akhmetzakirov noted the special urgency of the problem of investigating financial crimes.

"Despite the efforts made, the share of shadow turnover in the country is not decreasing. Huge amounts of money are stolen and transferred abroad. Only in high-profile cases, the damage exceeds 10 billion us dollars. Unfortunately, in most cases, these assets have not yet been returned to Kazakhstan. The key problem is the low quality of detection and investigation of financial crimes, " he said.

N. Akhmetzakirov expressed great gratitude to the representatives of the British Embassy and the financial monitoring Committee of the Ministry of Finance for their assistance in organizing training events.

In turn, British Ambassador Carolyn brown expressed gratitude for the fruitful cooperation and noted the high level of interaction between the two countries in solving strategic tasks of ensuring international and regional security.

The workshop will last until March 3. at the end, the participants will be awarded the appropriate certificates.

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