Police-Related Activities of other Thematic Units On 26 and 27 March, in Strasbourg, France, the OCEAA, jointly with TNTD, the FATF, the CoE and MONEYVAL organized a workshop on tackling money laundering and terrorist financing for judges and prosecutors in the OSCE region. This regional workshop was part of a global outreach initiative led by the FATF Presidency. The workshop aimed at gathering experiences from practitioners on the challenges and difficulties they face while investigating cases of money laundering and terrorist financing. From 11 to 13 April, in Nur-Sultan, the OCEEA, in partnership with the Law Enforcement Academy under the General Prosecutor’s Office (GPO) of the Republic of Kazakhstan, organized and moderated a three-day training seminar on corruption proofing of draft legislation for 30 representatives from public law enforcement institutions and civil society. The OCEEA representative also conducted ad hoc bilateral talks with representatives of the Ministry of Justice and the Law Enforcement Academy of Kazakhstan. Santiago Otamendi, President of the Financial Action Task Force, and Christos Giakoumopoulos, Director General of Human Rights and Rule of Law of the Council of Europe, speaking at the workshop on tackling money laundering and terrorist financing for judges and prosecutors. Strasbourg, France, 26 March 2018. (Council of Europe) On 30 May, in Chisinau, an OCEEA representative participated and delivered an opening statement on the OCEEA’s activities in the area of AML/CFT during a seminar on “Ensuring the effective implementation of EU and national AML/CFT standards”, organized by the National Bank of Moldova. Representatives of the public financial sector of Moldova and law enforcement agencies discussed methodologies for the identification of suspicious activity, EU support for developing an AML/CFT system of Moldova and the development of a national AML/CFT strategy and inter-agency co-operation. On 13 and 14 June, in Belgrade, the OCEEA organized, in cooperation with TNTD, a regional needs assessment workshop addressing illicit financial flows and the recovery of criminal assets in South-Eastern Europe. OSCE field operations from the region and partner organizations working on illicit finance and asset recovery participated in the workshop. The workshop participants identified weaknesses in the legislative framework and the implementation of asset recovery-related legislation, as well as in financial investigations and in judicial proceedings. Jointly with TNTD, the OCEEA is developing a project that is based on the findings of the workshop to support authorities in South-Eastern Europe in investigations, asset seizure/confiscation, asset management and the social reuse of confiscated assets. On 21 and 22 June, in Vienna, the OCEEA, in co-operation with UNODC, organized a workshop on “Combating misuse of the Darknet and Cryptocurrencies for Corruption and Financial Crimes” for senior decision-makers and practitioners from the Department of Financial Investigations of the State Control Committee of the Republic of Belarus. This workshop provided a detailed overview of best practices and experiences of Austria and other countries in the area of financial investigation of corruption-related crimes. On 14 and 15 June, in Ulaanbaatar, the OCEEA organized and held a two-day seminar on “Best Practices in countering Money Laundering through Offshores” for representatives of the Independent Authority Against Corruption of Mongolia and other relevant law enforcement agencies of Mongolia. As a follow-up to the seminar, a final report on main challenges, conclusions of the seminar and a list of recommendations for further elaboration of the national mechanisms to combat/ prevent money laundering through offshores was prepared. On 12 and 13 July, in Ashgabat, an OCEEA representative conducted an interactive session on measures to identify fraud and corruption in law enforcement at a seminar on “Professional Integrity and Ethical Standards in Law Enforcement”, organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat. On 26 and 27 November, in Minsk, the OCEEA, in co-operation with UNODC and with the support of the Department of Financial Investigations of the State Control Committee of Belarus, organized a two-day workshop focused on the early detection and prevention of corruption and financial crimes committed with the involvement of digital technologies for 35 representatives of different departments of the State Control Committee of the Republic of Belarus. 37