EU Advisory Mission: Sweden helps Ukraine strengthen financial crime investigations

Throughout June, Swedish prosecutors worked alongside Ukrainian colleagues in Kyiv, sharing the practical experience they have gained in investigating complex financial crimes.

Together with the Prosecutor’s Training Centre of Ukraine and the European Union Advisory Mission (EUAM) Ukraine, they delivered two workshops that equipped Ukrainian prosecutors with practical tools to investigate money laundering, prosecute economic crimes and recover criminal assets.

The first workshop, held on 18-19 June, focused on money laundering investigations and asset recovery. Participants explored investigation techniques, European legal frameworks and international cooperation mechanisms that help prosecutors to identify, freeze and confiscate criminal assets.

A week later, the second workshop shifted the focus from tracing illicit assets to building strong criminal cases. 

The programme also examined international cooperation through Eurojust, Joint Investigation Teams and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, alongside practical use of the Asset Recovery Office (ARO) network and the Camden Asset Recovery Inter-Agency Network (CARIN) for tracing criminal assets across borders.

Ruslan Kandziuba, Head of Department at the Prosecutor General’s Office, said the workshops demonstrated how European experience could strengthen prosecutors’ day-to-day work in Ukraine: “Since the training is organised jointly with EUAM Ukraine, prosecutors gain access to advanced European approaches to procedural management, bringing Ukrainian standards closer to those of the European Union. Learning how to use ARO and CARIN will help prosecutors identify, freeze and confiscate assets hidden abroad or within Ukraine more quickly and effectively.”

Kandziuba added that these trainings would also result in real revenue for the state budget and better compensation for damages.

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