The Democratic Republic of the Congo was placed on the FATF’s grey list for its AML/CFT deficiencies. The D R Congo, in collaboration with its partners established a working group to coordinate technical support in all the Immediate Outcomes that the country scored low in during its mutual evaluation.
Consequently, this coordinating committee requested the AML-CFT ESCAY Project to support the reinforcement of D R Congo stakeholders’ capacity in Immediate Outcome 7, 8 and 9. Requests included designing training modules and organizing series of trainings that improve technical
capacities of the different institutions mandated with investigation, prosecution and conviction of ML/TF offenses as well as in asset recovery and confiscation.
And this is the assistance that our team was in D R Congo to provide.
We mobilized trainers and identified relevant Congolese stakeholders including the FIU, judiciary police, public prosecution, asset recovery, the judiciary and other relevant agencies to be trained.
The Project designed the required courses supported by practical exercises.
This training session was the first of two rounds of training. The next session will run from 4 – 8 December. In all, the training is targeting 160 public officials in the D R Congo
