Selakovic: Financial crime investigation strategy soon

BELGRADE - Serbian Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic said Wednesday that Serbia would in a month and a half from now adopt its first strategy for investigation of financial crime, which will introduce a series of measures to improve and strengthen the implementation of financial investigations.

The strategy aims to strengthen financial investigation through cooperation between the prosecution and the police, Selakovic said while opening the 5th edition of Archibald Reiss Days, an annual international conference taking place at the Academy of Criminalistic and Police Studies in Belgrade.

The draft version of the Financial Crime Investigations Strategy 2015-2016, which envisages linking the police and prosecution through liaison officers, introducing financial forensic experts, continuous training, international cooperation and a number of other measures, is currently a topic of public debate and was posted on the Ministry of Justice website in mid-February.

Selakovic said that the implementation of the conclusions from such meetings and analysis of knowledge presented would contribute to reducing the number of issues and resolving them as well as possible.

"This is really a conference that can lead to a lot of good things, because it brings together those involved in scientific analysis of social phenomena and those in charge of punishing or preventing these phenomena on the ground," said the justice minister.

This year, the conference will feature presentation of scientific papers by 140 eminent authors, including scientists, researchers, and police and government employees from 22 countries - Great Britain, China, Russia, Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Poland, Slovakia, Turkey, Greece,...