On 25 September, the Mission organized a one-day workshop on “Life Style Analysis” in Belgrade. The workshop was attended by 20 participants from the MoI’s Financial Investigation Unit, the Anti Money Laundering and Corruption Unit, as well as by two participants from the Administration for the Prevention of Money Laundering and one prosecutor from the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime. The workshop was organized in co-operation with the US ICITAP. The primary goal of the workshop was to introduce the Serbian participants to this recently developed concept utilized internationally with the aim of quantifying the living expenses of an individual and to compare those expenses to known sources of income and other funds, thus identifying persons who may or who are likely to commit crime. Additionally, the event focused on fostering multi-agency cooperation, as well as providing Serbian investigators and prosecutors with skills and theoretical knowledge to better investigate financial crimes and seize criminal assets by using this new instrument. The workshop was delivered by one agent from the UK Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) and one Life Style Analysis expert from the US ICITAP. The introduction of Life Style Analysis as a component of financial investigations was one of the sixteen recommendations from the comparative assessment report on the legislation and organization of European Financial Investigations Units, developed jointly by the Mission and the Serbian MoI in 2010. With the aim of presenting possibilities for public and private sector co-operation in the area of fighting economic crime, the Mission organized a workshop on “Plastic Card Investigation” on 1-2 October. This was a follow-up to the MoI’s study visit to the City of London Police, facilitated by the Mission in 2011. Representatives of the City of London Police (the Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit and the Insurance Fraud Investigation Unit) gave presentations about the benefits of establishing public and private sector relationships. The focus was on its practical use in criminal investigations and the disclosure of organized criminal groups, thus providing savings for the industry. The event also underlined the importance of interagency co-operation. The workshop gathered 15 representatives from the MoI’s diverse organizational units dealing with the fight against financial crime. Additionally, representatives of the Ministry of Justice, the Administration for the Prevention of Money Laundering, as well as of the Serbian private sector under the umbrella of the Chamber of Commerce and the Industry of Serbia, also participated. From 31 May to 1 June, a regional conference on the ”Management of the Confiscated Proceeds from Crime” was organized by the Mission, in co-operation with the CoE, in Belgrade. 94 participants from the region and from EU countries (Bulgaria, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania and Spain) gathered to discuss which system each country had adopted or was developing in order to efficiently identify, seize and manage the assets seized or confiscated from criminals. Corruption On 3-4 December, the Mission participated at the round table “Fight against Corruption”, jointly organized by the MoI and the Police Academy, in co-operation with the German Hanns Seidel Foundation. The round table was held in Vrnjačka Banja. It was attended by key actors involved in anti-corruption measures, such as the MoI, the MoJ, the Commissioner for the Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection, the Ombudsman, NGO’s and international organizations. Following an initial presentation of the survey results on “Corruption in Public Administration”, given by the Police Academy, the event continued in four sessions: - The first session addressed the “National Strategy for the Fight against Corruption and the Role of the Rule of Law” with presentations held by the Ministry of Justice; The second session focused on “The Police and Corruption”, with presentations given by the MoI’s Criminal Investigation Directorate together with the Internal Affairs Division; 89