An online workshop on “Best practices of adjudication of money laundering and other economic crime cases” was organised together with the Supreme Court of Georgia for the judges of the Chamber of Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of Georgia, with direct contribution from an international Council of Europe expert judge with extensive experience in serious economic crimes and asset recovery cases.
The workshop served as a platform for discussing trends and challenges generally faced by judges, in Georgia and internationally, when dealing with money laundering and other economic crime cases, as well as confiscation of proceeds from crime. As a result, relevant solutions to address legal and practical issues identified by the judges in their professional activity in the area of economic crime have been identified. This training was a part of a series of activities designed to support the national authorities to improve frameworks and operational capacities for investigation, prosecution and adjudication of corruption, money laundering/financing of terrorism (ML/FT) and other economic crime cases.
The event was considered highly relevant and useful by its participants, who requested to continue the exercise through follow-up editions of similar thematic workshops, to provide further reflection and practical guidance on how to deal with economic crimes and asset recovery from a judicial perspective.
The activity was organised in the framework of the project “Enhancing the systems of prevention and combating corruption, money laundering and terrorist financing in Georgia”, funded jointly by the European Union and the Council of Europe and implemented by the Council of Europe in their Partnership for Good Governance II.
