Africa-Press – Angola. The National Directorate for the Prevention and Combat of Corruption (DNPCC) will always need the cooperation of national and international entities to combat crimes of an economic and financial nature, due to their specificity and complexity, defended the director of the institution, the attorney general deputy of the Republic, Pedro Mendes de Carvalho.
The judge who spoke this Wednesday, in Luanda, on behalf of the Attorney General of the Republic, Hélder Pitta Gróz, at the Workshop on Financial Investigations and Money Laundering Cases, taking place from the 13th to the 14th of March , reaffirmed that cooperation is a crucial element in the fight against corruption.
He added that without cooperation it is not possible to combat economic and financial crimes, especially money laundering, whether in the procedural or training sphere.
On the other hand, the representative of the European Union (AU) in Angola, Carlos Leitão, reiterated the need to improve data collection and processing mechanisms, above all, to deepen statistics as a fundamental element of justice credibility.
For the diplomat, this step is essential to give institutions credibility, after the implementation of the asset recovery system and the recovery of large sums of values, in the country and abroad, resulting from the fight against economic and financial crimes.
He explained that the Mutual Assessment Report of the East and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG) identified some of the main structural weaknesses, to this end, joint and coordinated work has been carried out with with a view to meeting them and making the country a reference in the region in terms of the fight against money laundering.
In turn, the representative of the United Nations Agency on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Manuela Carneiro, highlighted the importance of collective efforts in combating money laundering, a threat that puts not only financial security at risk of Nations, but also of the entire society.
On the other hand, he addressed the Pro-React project, which aims to support the strengthening of the National Asset Confiscation System.
This is an initiative by the Angolan authorities, financed by the EU and implemented in partnership with the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic (PGR) and UNODC.
Pro-React aims to contribute to increasing the technical capacity of Angolan professionals in this matter and support the Executive’s strategies in the path of Sustainable Development of the United Nations Agenda, on Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.
The Workshop on Financial Investigations and Money Laundering Cases aims to improve the knowledge of participants who will focus on topics related to financial investigation, with emphasis on strategies, techniques and the method by which the accusation should be deduced when there are facts that constitute crimes of the genre.
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