Introducing cadets to international experience in training police officers in the field of preventing economic crimes
Odessa State University of Internal Affairs is constantly improving approaches to providing higher education students with advanced international experience. Thus, today the Department of Cybersecurity and Information Support, with the support of the European Union Advisory Mission, included cadets in the international 4th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptocurrencies, organized by Europol, Interpol and the Basel Institute for Governance, which brought together 132 countries and 2,000 representatives of law enforcement and judicial bodies, financial intelligence units, international organizations and the private sector.
The main goal of the event is to exchange experiences and form international solutions against the criminal use of cryptocurrencies, the practice of financial investigations and intelligence regarding virtual assets and cryptocurrencies.
Ukraine is witnessing an increase in crimes involving virtual currencies, and this is how current and future police officers are faced with the question of finding, analyzing, and procedurally fixing cryptocurrency wallets.
At the beginning of the event, Interpol Director for the Organization and Development of Crime Ilana de Wilde noted: “A multi-agency and interdisciplinary approach, involving both the private and public sectors, is key to combating criminal finance and the misuse of cryptocurrencies. By combining the experience and data on financial crime in the private sector with the investigative capabilities of law enforcement agencies, we can expand our collective capabilities and expand our efforts against criminal finance.”
The following topical topics were also covered during the two days:
- a three-dimensional approach to responding to virtual assets (VA);
- financial crimes: tools, rules, operations;
- the state of cryptocurrency crime in 2020: trends and investigations;
- the latest research and case studies on cryptocrime trends shaping law enforcement and
- compliance in 2020.
Cadets and employees of the Department of Cybersecurity and Information Support actively participated in the event, and it is noteworthy that a year ago, police private Tetyana Bedriy took 1st place in the competition of scientific papers among higher education institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with the topic of the work "Detection and fixation of cryptocurrency wallets by units of the National Police of Ukraine", which was written under the supervision of Candidate of Laws, Associate Professor Karen Ismayilov.
The cadets were satisfied with the knowledge they gained in the field of preventing economic criminal offenses, namely the leading foreign experience of law enforcement agencies in combating the criminal use of cryptocurrencies, the practice of financial investigations and the search for virtual assets and cryptocurrencies.