UNODC trains nearly 2,000 officials

VGP – The United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has trained some 1,900 Vietnamese officials in countering money laundering over the past five years.

April 27, 2012 7:40 AM GMT+7

The officials include 900 policemen, 100 prosecutors, 200 banking staffs.

The figures were released at a recent conference to evaluate an anti-money laundering project named “Strengthening of the Legal and Law Enforcement Institutions in Preventing and Combating Money Laundering in Vietnam”, started in 2007.

The project aimed at boosting the capacity of government law enforcement, prosecution and other criminal justice institutions, as well as civil society responses to prevent, detect, investigate and prosecute cases of money laundering in line with international standards.

By Hải Minh