Albanian trainers trained in countering terrorist financing by OSCE and UN Office on Drugs and Crime

A two-day train-the-trainer course on countering terrorist financing for participants from Albania was held on 2 and 3 September 2019 at the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna.

The training course was organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department, in co-operation with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime's Global Programme against Money Laundering (UNODC/GPML) and the OSCE Presence in Albania.

The course was led by international experts and tailored to Albania and region-specific scenarios.

The four participants of the course will deliver training courses to local officials upon their return to Albania, together with international experts from the OSCE and the UNODC.

The training programme provided the opportunity to discuss and work in-depth on aspects related to financial investigation and case management. It was conducted to strengthen the capacity of Albania to identify, investigate and disrupt the financing of terrorism, as well as inter-agency co-operation.

The train-the-trainer course is part of a comprehensive multi-annual OSCE-UNODC capacity-building programme to support national efforts to counter terrorist financing in South-Eastern Europe, in accordance with international standards, in particular the recently adopted UN Security Council Resolution 2462 (2019), the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF)’s standards and OSCE commitments.