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Momodou
Denmark
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 Posted - 29 Aug 2007 : 21:37:22
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Training for Prosecutors in Money Laundering Cases
Location: Banjul, The Gambia
Date: 15-19 October 2007
The workshop aims to develop the skills and techniques of prosecutors involved in money laundering cases and other financial crimes.
Asset forfeiture; money laundering prosecutions and criminal and civil issues in money laundering offences will be covered.
The workshop is organised by the Secretariat through the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation and the Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in West Africa.
The Office of Technical Assistance at the United States Department of Treasury and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime are providing experts to work with the prosecutors.
For further information about the event please call: +44 (0)20 7747 6385, or e-mail cnis@commonwealth.int
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 20 Oct 2007 : 17:42:27
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West African Prosecutors Trained On Anti-Money Laundering
By Bubacarr K. Sowe
Prosecutors drawn from the English speaking West African States and Cameroon are undergoing a five day training on money laundering cases at the Kairaba Beach Hotel in Kololi. The training, which started on Monday, October 15, is organised by the Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in West Africa (GIABA) and the Commonwealth Secretariat with experts drawn from the office of Technical Assistance of the United States Treasury Department, GIABA Secretariat, Commonwealth Secretariat and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
Marie Saine-Firdaus, the Attorney General and Secretary of State for Justice who spoke at the opening ceremony, said terrorism financing., drug abuse and trafficking, corruption and money laundering have become key transnational crimes that the world is grapping with, coupled with the enormous challenges faced by some of the nations due to its transnational dimension, complexity and sophistication in the mode of operations of the criminals.
“As we become more closely globally interlinked due to modern technology, our global village need sustained, consistent and highly skilled personnel training to catch up with new criminal devices, methods and methodologies to ensure that there is no weak link in our chain,” Mrs. Saine Fridaus cautioned.
Dr. Abdoullali Shehu the Director General of GIABA said successful prosecutions of White Collar crime depends on a number of preconditions, including the resourcefulness, skills and the integrity of the prosecutors themselves.
“Under the common law system, meeting the evidentiary proof beyond reasonable doubt presents a big challenge, yet necessary,” Dr. Shehu said.
Cecilia Marian of the Commonwealth Secretariat urged countries that have not passed anti-money laundering laws to do so immediately. The Chief Justice of the Gambia, Abdou Kairm Savage, said money laundering is becoming a cankerworm for fledgling democracies and the crusade against its menace is a daunting task.
Justine Savage added that the people who are involved in the fight against such organised crimes have to be “smart and capacitised personnel”.
Jerry Rowe, Africa and Middle East Regional Adviser to the U.S Department of Treasury, said his government helps countries to develop anti money laundering legislations. Mr. Rowe added that they try to be responsive to money laundering activities and participate in providing bilateral technical assistance to other countries.
Clive Scott of the Global Programme Against Money Laundering (GPML) of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said the fight against money laundering is a priority to his office and that they seek to achieve this goal.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No. 122/2007, 17 - 18 October, 2007 |
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Karamba
United Kingdom
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Posted - 20 Oct 2007 : 19:36:14
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Choosing Gambia as venue for this particular programme is not by flip of chance. The manner that Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh dishes out foreign currency as donation is enough to cause doubt if the man is not into some funny currency games. Money laundering is not the same as money doubling. They are both part of the dirty tricks in financial games. A president who thinks and acts as though being president means getting RICH is capable of dirty money games. Can anyone explain where Jammeh is getting all the Dollars he plays around with? |
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