The AML-CFT ESCAY Project was back to Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa, together with representatives from Malawi, Uganda, Tanzania, and Zambia who have since October been working on Developing a national training curriculum on financial investigations.
The teams first met in October, when during a weeklong training session, they were equipped with the necessary technical know-how, skills, and tools to return home and to develop a curriculum that was suited to each country’s situation, laws, and needs.
After weeks of each country team laboring to put the curriculum together, they returned to Mombasa for the Validation workshop. With the help of Project experts, the country teams reviewed and fine-tuned their documents.
The participants from each country are drawn from the prosecution and investigation institutions, informed by the realization that to successfully win cases against terrorism, terrorist financing, money laundering and related offenses, it is inevitable that the prosecutors and the investigators must work together.
The final documents – 4 Financial Investigations curricula for each of the participating countries – will be launched at a prestigious ceremony in Mombasa, in December 2023
The development of curricula on financial investigations is important for the AML-CFT ESCAY Project, as it will ensure the sustainability of the gains made, beyond the life of the project. The curricula will also ensure that investigators and prosecutors in a given country tackle investigation and prosecution of organised crimes from a harmonised perspective.
