Seminar on electronic and Internet crimes and money laundering

As part of the Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field between the European Union and Macao and beginning tomorrow Monday, March 17, at 18:30, in the Auditorium of the Public Administration Building (basement) is the Seminar on Electronic and Internet Crimes: Focus on Money Laundering. This training activity will take place until Friday, March 11, having as speakers two European experts: Marco Gercke, Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Ansbach, Germany, and Expert for the Council of Europe in the field of International Criminal Law in Cyberspace, and Simon David Goddard, Team Leader of the Project MOLI-RU, the Project against Money Laundering in the Russian Federation, funded by the European Commission through the Council of Europe. Organized by the Legal and Judicial Training Centre, this seminar will be conducted in English and primarily targets holders of a law degree. Around seventy local participants have enrolled. Throughout the five days of this training activity five subjects will be fundamentally approached: “Introduction: The phenomenon of cybercrime”; “Criminal Procedural Law and international cooperation in the fight against cybercrime”; “Money Laundering: The problem and the international response; defining the risk, national impact, international standard setting”; “Money Laundering: The opportunities and threat of the internet; criminal advantages and impact on law enforcement of E-cash” and “Money Laundering: The strategies for prevention and control; effective anti-money laundering measures, national framework”. The Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field between the European Union and Macao, which incorporates this seminar, has as its main objective the “Consolidation of the Macao Legal System” and is already in its fourth and last year, taking place until February 2006. The total budget for the programme is of 1.980.000 euros, shared in equal parts by the European Union and Macao. The co-ordination of the Co-operation Programme is at the responsibility of the International Law Office, being the organization of the pertaining actions ensured by several other entities of the MSAR’s Government, namely the Legal and Judicial Training Centre, the Legal Affairs Bureau, the Economic Services and the Institute of European Studies, other than the International Law Office itself.