The opening up of capital markets, the growing complexity of relations between economic players and the internationalisation of organised crime have obliged political and judicial authorities to create new and adaptable legal tools. Faced with ever more astute and structured criminal practices that undermine the economy, judges, prosecutors and investigative agencies are constantly upgrading their methods to fight this particular form of crime more effectively. This requires strong international cooperation and up-to-date knowledge of the role played by digital technology. This course allows participants and experts to exchange good practices on the operational issues involved in detection and investigation, which is essential to the fight against a multi-faceted and ever-changing form of international crime.

Training objectives
This session is an opportunity for participants to exchange their technical knowledge and look into the balance between the need to fight this kind of crime and protecting economic and social interests. Participants will have the opportunity to develop their legal knowledge on the fight against economic and financial crime, primarily:

• Introduction to the legal framework, definitions of financial offences and the fundamentals of reading accounting and financial analysis documents; 
• Comprehension of the specifics of police investigation techniques; 
• Judicial handling of economic and financial offences: prevention and enforcement, role of the prosecutor’s office in dealing with distressed companies, policy on financial crime, the examination phase; 
• Discovery of the role of the specialist professionals, experts and public institutions working alongside the justice system: Intelligence Processing and Action against Illicit Financial Networks Unit (TRACFIN); 
• Training in the instruments of international cooperation in the judicial handling of large scale corruption.