Training Course on "Enhancing the Effectiveness of the Fight Against Economic Crimes"

Within the framework of the program "Strengthening National Capacities to effective prevention and fight against Economic Crimes in Armenia", the Council of Europe, in cooperation with the State Revenue Committee and the SRC RA Training Center, organized a course on "Enhancing the Effectiveness of the Fight Against Economic Crimes" for the officers of the Inquiry and Operational Search Department of the RA SRC.

The participants were welcomed by Mikael Khachatryan, Advisor to the Chairman of the RA SRC, Azganush Totolyan, Senior Project Officer of the Council of Europe, Arusyak Mirzakhanyan, Director of the SRC Training Center, and Davit Melkonyan, Council of Europe expert.

The training was focused on the study of modern methods and tools used in the detection of financial and tax crimes, emphasizing the importance of the effective use not only of the information obtained through operational-search activities but also of alternative and additional information sources. These sources include data received from foreign states, information from domestic authorities, as well as information provided by the Financial Monitoring Center.

The training also presented methods for identifying predicate offenses alongside tax crime investigations, along with practical approaches to the combination and analysis of information received from open sources and operational data. Particular attention was paid to identifying suspicious signs typical of financial crimes, analyzing financial transactions and behavioral patterns, as well as the early risk detection.

The training was conducted by Davit Melkonyan, expert of the Council of Europe.