4.5 Mission to Serbia to gain knowledge on the typologies of fraud against the public interest and the available tools and mechanisms to fight them. The experts from the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of European Integration, the MoI ,the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime, the Higher Prosecutor’s Office, and the Governmental Audit Office of EU Funds delivered lectures; The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia and the Head of the Mission’s Security Co-operation Department launch the second phase of the risky behaviour prevention project “To ��� From 15 November to 11 December, the Mission, together with the MoI, organized four two-day courses on how to prove corruption and economic criminal offences. A total of 110 police officers and prosecutors from the special Anti-Corruption Departments were trained on how to qualify economic crime and corruption offences, how to recognize evidence necessary for proving these offences, and what evidence police has to collect in order to present them to the prosecutors. Success, Together!”. Novi Sad, 25 October 2018. (OSCE/ Milan Obradović) for 25 police officers per course, totalling 100 staff of the MoI’s Anti-Corruption Department; • From 16 April to 18 May, the Mission, together with the MoI, organized four courses on bank documentation for the MoI’s Anti-Corruption Department staff, assisting them to examine bank documents, such as accounts of legal entities, bank statements, credit and debit cards, checks and alternative money transfers (“Hawala”); • From 28 May to 19 June, the Mission, together with the MoI, organized four courses on special evidentiary actions, focusing on the circumstances in which special evidentiary actions may apply, ways to obtain a prosecutor’s order for the use of special evidentiary actions, and ways to use the evidence collected in this way in the pre-investigative procedure; 88 These activities were implemented as part of the second phase of the project “Enhancing Capacities of the Serbian Police to Fight Corruption”, supported by the Norwegian MFA. From 9 to 12 July, recognizing the importance of regional cooperation in the fight against corruption, the Mission, jointly with the OSCE Secretariat, supported the Regional AntiCorruption Initiative in organizing the 13th Summer School for Junior Anti-Corruption Practitioners from SEE. Hosted by Serbia’s Ministry of Justice, the event was convened at the Judicial Academy of Serbia in Belgrade. Nine international experts trained some 20 participants from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia on corruption phenomenology and emerging trends. The participants also learned why the recovery of criminal assets was crucial in fighting corruption and organized crime, and discussed crossborder and regional co-operation in investigating complex criminal offences and seizing and confiscating criminal assets. • From 30 August to 28 September, the Mission and the MoI organized four courses on public procurement fraud for staff of the MoI’s Anti-Corruption Department. The courses aimed at improving the quality of indictments and court decisions concerning cases related to public procurement, where police-prosecution investigation is essential. The participants learned how tendering documentation or informal arrangements of parties involved in implementing tendering procedures could be used to commit fraud; From 15 to 16 October, the Mission, in partnership with the MoI, organized a two-day intensive training on corruption risk analysis. Held for Serbia’s MoI employees, the training was delivered by experts from the Anti-Corruption General Directorate of the Romanian MoI. A total of 25 participants took part in this event, including representatives of the MoI’s SIC, the Criminal Investigations Directorate, and the Customs Administration. The main goal of the training was to increase the participants’ knowledge and skills relevant for identifying corruption risks in the police and successfully implementing preventive measures. • From 16 October to 9 November, the Mission organized four two-day courses on the misuse of public funds. In total, 112 police officers and prosecutors from the special Anti-Corruption Departments were given an opportunity From 17 to 19 October, the Mission organized a three-day workshop, during which the Romanian experts who delivered the training on 15 and 16 October, worked closely with representatives of the Serbian SIC on defining indicators of