Press meeting: Institutional and Policy Response to Money Laundering

On October 19th took place the opening press meeting for the project “Improving the Institutional and Policy Response for the Prevention and Control of Money Laundering in Bulgaria and Southeast Europe”. The project is funded by the EC, DG Home Affairs, Prevention of and Fight Against Crime Programme. The project started on October 5th and will run for the next two years. Panel presenters included Mr. Petrunov, coordinator for training in the project, and lecturer in criminology at the University of National and World Economy and Mr. Stefan Popov, project manager, Executive director of RiskMonitor. This was the first event under the project, which gathered 20 representatives of media, NGOs and universities. The press meeting presented the overall objectives and activities planned for the project, stressing on the importance of consistent actions against money laundering by the state and non-state actors alike. Press kits were distributed to the attending journalists with information about the project and the main problems related to the prevention and fight against money laundering in Bulgaria.

Download the presentation. (in Bulgarian)

Download the press-kit. (In English)