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September 7, 2005
Embassy of the United States of America
Belgrade

From the American People

U.S. Department of Justice and OSCE Conduct Organized Crime Seminar to Strengthen Fight Against Organized Crime in Serbia and Montenegro

U.S. Department of Justice Office of Overseas Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT), a program managed by the U.S. Embassy’s Resident Legal Advisor's Office, will hold a three-day intensive Organized Crime Seminar in cooperation with the OSCE Belgrade Office. The seminar, which will be held for Serbian and Montenegrin judges, prosecutors and police, will take place at the "Avala" Hotel in Budva from September 8-10.

This Organized Crime Seminar features distinguished U.S. and OSCE experts on special investigative techniques, asset seizure and money laundering. The presenters include a U.S. Department of Justice organized crime trial attorney from Washington, an Assistant United States Attorney from the Organized Crime Strike Force Division of the United States Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, an experienced FBI investigator, a U.S. Department of Treasury expert and prominent OSCE asset seizure experts. The seminar will focus on criminal justice tools to combat organized crime, such as the use of witness collaborator, informants, wire-tapping, asset seizure and financial profiling in the organized crime trials.

In addition, as of September 8, the U.S. Department of Justice will assign an Intermittent Resident Legal Advisor in Montenegro who will work to assist the Montenegrin capacity building of its rule of law institutions. This advisor will work in conjunction with the Department of Justice's Resident Legal Advisor's Program in Belgrade.

Press interested in covering the event should be present at the "Avala" Hotel in Budva no later then 9.00 AM on September 8th.


7. septembar, 2005
Ambasada Sjedinjenih Američkih Država
Beograd

From the American People

Ministarstvo Pravde SAD i Misija OEBS-a organizuju Seminar o organizovanom kriminalu u cilju jačanja borbe protiv organizovanog kriminala u Srbiji i Crnoj Gori

Kancelarija za međunarodnu pomoć, usavršavanje i profesionalnu obuku sudova, tužilaštava i policije Ministarstva pravde SAD (OPDAT), program koji predstavlja Kancelarija stalnog pravnog savetnika pri Ambasadi SAD u Beogradu, održaće intenzivan trodnevni Seminar o organizovanom kriminalu u saradnji sa Misijom OEBS-a u Beogradu. Seminar je organizovan za sudije, tužioce i policiju Srbije i Crne Gore, i održaće se u hotelu "Avala" u Budvi, od 8.-10. septembra.

Na ovom Seminaru o organizovanom kriminalu predavači će biti uvaženi eksperti SAD i OEBS u oblasti specijalnih istražnih mera, oduzimanja imovinske koristi i pranja novca. Među predavačima se nalazi i zamenik saveznog tužioca za organizovani kriminal iz Vašingtona, SAD, zamenik saveznog tužioca operativnog tima za borbu protiv organizovanog kriminala iz Savezne istočne oblasti države Pensilvanije, agent Saveznog Biroa za Istrage (FBI) sa velikim iskustvom, ekspert Ministarstva Finansija SAD i ugledni eksperti OEBS iz oblasti oduzimanja imovinske koristi stečene izvršenjem krivičnog dela. Centralna tema seminara biće krivično pravna sredstva borbe protiv organizovanog kriminala, kao što su upotreba svedoka saradnika, informanata, prisluškivanje, oduzimanje imovinske koristi i finansijskog profiliranja u slučajevima organizovanog kriminala.

Pored toga, od 8. septembra, Ministarstvo pravde SAD postaviće privremenog pravnog savetnika u Crnoj Gori koji će pomagati u jačanju kapaciteta institucija koje obezbeđuju vladavinu prava u Crnoj Gori. Ovaj savetnik će raditi u saradnji sa stalnim pravnim savetnikom u Beogradu.

Zainteresovani predstavnici medija treba da dođu u hotel "Avala" u Budvi najkasnije do 09.00 časova 8. septembra, 2005.

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