OECD Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia expert seminar “Effective Means of Investigation and Prosecution of Corruption” took place on 20 – 22 October 2010 in Bucharest, Romania. The seminar was hosted by the National Anticorruption Directorate of Romania (http://www.pna.ro).

The seminar aimed at fostering exchange of experience and good practice among practitioners from investigating, prosecuting and anti-corruption authorities with law enforcement powers in ACN countries and other regions.

The topics of the seminar included:

• detection and investigation of corruption;
• prosecution of corruption;
• prosecution of high level corruption, legal persons for corruption and foreign bribery;
• independence and specialisation of police and prosecution in fighting corruption; and
• effective asset forfeiture in corruption cases.

The seminar brought together around 50 investigators and prosecutors from Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and had as speakers experts from OECD Working Group on Bribery countries.

Documents

• Draft agenda
• Press release of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate of Romania
• Seminar proceedings [ENG] [RUS] 

Contact

For questions, please contact: Ms. Inese Gaika, OECD, inese.gaika@oecd.org, tel. + 33 1 45 24 13 19.