Experts talk fighting crime

Methods to fight organized crime and its threats in Moldova and Europe are discussed on August 5 and 6 at a conference held in Chisinau by the EU Border Assistance Mission in Moldova and Ukraine (EUBAM), Info-Prim Neo reports. It is attended by international experts from EUBAM, Europol and Interpol, and from the Moldovan Interior Ministry, Border Guards Service, the Customs Service, the Justice Ministry and the General Prosecutor's Office. EUBAM head Ferenc Banfi opened the event by stating that the organized crime was not a problem striking only a country, but the entire European space. The conference broaches the present and future threats entailed by the organized crime in the world, will explore methods of improving the information exchange and the cooperation among all the Molovan law-enforcing bodies. “I dare say we understand one another better, we have established cooperation relations, so that we'll openly elucidate all the issues related to organized crime, at this conference,” Ferenc Banfi stated. Europol experts present tools used in the European Union to coordinate efforts in fighting organized crime, and the model of fast information in terms of penal issues and the assessment of threats entailed by the organized crime in Europe. The seminar unfolds in cooperation with Europol and is facilitated by John Abbott, a former manager of Penal Information Service in UK, Interpol's former deputy chairman.