The Law Enforcement Academy under the Prosecutor General’s office of the Republic of Kazakhstan has completed an international simulation training on responding to cases of legalization of income from drug crimes.
The training was attended by over 40 people – representatives of the Prosecutor’s office, police, Economic investigation service and CARICC, experts from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia.
Within 5 days, participants investigated simulated cases of distribution of drugs and laundering of proceeds from their sale.
The exercise involved the organization of the undercover investigation, an examination, detention, interrogations, confrontations, sending requests and instructions to state bodies and other organizations. For each of them, the relevant procedural documents were drawn up.
According to the results of these activities, the training group established a scheme of legalization of funds received by the criminal group from the sale of drugs, formed the necessary evidence base.
The logical conclusion of the training was the direction of the formed criminal case to the court and the maintenance of the state charge.
The training session was held by the judge of the Specialized inter-district court for criminal cases of the city of Nur-Sultan Daniya Kisikova.
At the end of the training program, a closing ceremony was held, which was attended by the heads of the Law Enforcement Academy, the CARICC, the US Embassy in Kazakhstan, the OSCE Office in Nur-Sultan.
The participants of the event noted the effectiveness of the training, the relevance and importance of its topics, the high level of organization.
