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            <title>Vilnius: CEPOL strengthens capabilities to combat excise and customs fraud  </title>
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            <description>From 1 to 4 June 2026, CEPOL delivered onsite activity 68/2026/ONS: “Excise Fraud: Intelligence, Detection, and Operational Response”, implemented in Vilnius, Lithuania under the framework of the European Multidisciplinary Platform Against Criminal Threats (EMPACT), in close cooperation with the EMP...</description>
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            <title>Anti-fraud intelligence analysis: OLAF and CEPOL train 27 law enforcement officials</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
            <description>From 8 to 12 June 2026, in partnership with the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), CEPOL delivered the fourth edition of its flagship training activity on anti-fraud intelligence analysis. By enhancing analytical capabilities and promoting a common understanding of emerging threats, this training co...</description>
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            <title>67/2026/ONS: Anti-fraud intelligence analysis</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
            <description>The aim of this onsite activity is to increase awareness, knowledge, and preparedness of law enforcement personnel to prevent, detect, analyse, and investigate frauds, in order to better protect EU and Member States financial interests.EMPACT training activityCombatting new forms of organised crime ...</description>
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            <title>21/2026/ONS: : International asset recovery – regional – South</title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
            <description>The aim of this onsite activity is to:improve knowledge and skills on changes of the legal framework and the most updated investigative techniques, with a focus on challenges of non-conviction-based confiscation.intensify contact with European counterparts (financial investigators and asset recovery...</description>
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            <title>68/2026/ONS: Excise fraud intelligence, detection, and operational response</title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
            <description>The aim of this onsite activity is to enhance knowledge, skills and operational competences to detect, analyse, report and support joint operational responses against cross-border smuggling of excise goods, with a focus on novel tobacco products, alcohol and mineral oils, including the effective use...</description>
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            <title>16/2026/ONS: Money laundering typologies</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 21:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
            <description>The aim of this onsite activity is to intensify the knowledge and skills regarding the fight against money laundering and the various forms of money laundering (cash-based money laundering, trade-based money laundering, cryptocurrencies asset recovery) by exchanging knowledge and sharing good intell...</description>
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            <title>Protecting EU funds - CEPOL delivers training in Budapest</title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 21:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
            <description>CEPOL successfully completed course 17/2026/ONS: Financial Analysis and Investigation – Protection of EU Funds. Held at the Agency’s headquarters in Budapest between 4 and 8 May 2026, the activity welcomed 26 participants from 18 EU Member States and Ukraine, alongside 11 trainers and experts repres...</description>
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            <title>3015/2026/WEB 'Fighting illegal tobacco production: insights from Greece’s recent operations' </title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 21:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
            <description>The aim of this webinar is to strengthen EU law enforcement awareness of large-scale illicit tobacco production and trafficking, focusing on how the most threatening criminal networks and individuals engage in and profit from this activity, illustrated through insights from recent Hellenic Police op...</description>
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            <title>17/2026/ONS: Financial analysis and investigation - Protection of EU Funds</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 21:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
            <description>The aim of this onsite activity is to improve the fight against fraud on EU funds by exchanging knowledge on recent fraud schemes and sharing good intelligence, risk analysis methods and investigative practices.EMPACT training activity&nbsp;Combating new forms of organised crime requires more cooper...</description>
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            <title>EMPACT financial crime working group kick-off connects EU and southern partners</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
            <description>The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL) has established a working group focused on financial crime, bringing together specialists to collaborate under the&nbsp;EUROMED Police project and within the frame of the&nbsp;European Multidisciplinary Platform Against Criminal Threats ...</description>
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            <title>EMPACT training enhances capabilities in crypto-asset investigations</title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
            <description>As the criminal use of crypto-assets continues to expand, organised crime groups increasingly rely on specialised intermediaries and facilitators. These actors combine conventional money-laundering methods with sophisticated activity in crypto-asset markets, creating growing challenges for law enfor...</description>
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            <title>3036/2026/WEB 'The use of coin swap services and crypto bridges for money laundering' </title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
            <description>The Crypto Crime Webinar Series will cover three of the most popular topics related to money laundering and crypto crimes: the role of stable coins and OTCs (over-the-counter exchanges), the use of coin swap services and crypto bridges for money laundering, and the anonymity protocol Tornado Cash.&n...</description>
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            <title>E029/2025/EXB Judicial cooperation in cross‑border money laundering investigations</title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
            <description>The aim of this training is to present the outcomes of the exchange focused on identifying the most effective forms of cooperation in economic crime investigations between Germany and Italy—two countries closely connected through significant on‑site criminal presence and deep economic infiltration b...</description>
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            <title>3021/2026/WEB 'Financial Investigations' Part III</title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 22:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
            <description>Financial investigations play a crucial role in combatting organised crime, corruption, terrorism financing, and other serious offences by uncovering the financial trails that underpin criminal activities. Following the money often provides the most effective way to identify criminal networks, recov...</description>
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            <title>3020/2026/WEB 'Financial investigations - Part II'</title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
            <description>Financial investigations play a crucial role in combatting organised crime, corruption, terrorism financing, and other serious offences by uncovering the financial trails that underpin criminal activities. Following the money often provides the most effective way to identify criminal networks, recov...</description>
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            <title>CEPOL launches call for tenders for the development of a "Diploma Course on Financial Investigations”</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
            <description>The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL) has launched an open call for tenders for the provision of services for the design, development and implementation of a blended, multi-modular pilot “Diploma Course on Financial Investigations”.The objective of this procurement procedure...</description>
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            <title>12/2025/ONS: International asset recovery</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
            <description>The aim of this onsite activity is to:strengthen the fight against organised crime by enhancing the ability of financial investigators and asset recovery specialists to seize, freeze, confiscate and manage assets. improve knowledge and skills of participants on changes of the legal framework and the...</description>
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            <title>3022/2025/WEB 'Financial investigations'</title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
            <description>Financial investigations play a crucial role in combatting organised crime, corruption, terrorism financing, and other serious offences by uncovering the financial trails that underpin criminal activities. Following the money often provides the most effective way to identify criminal networks, recov...</description>
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            <title>Grand Ducal Police delivers CEPOL course on Financial Analysis and Investigation</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
            <description>From 10 to 14 November 2025, the Grand Ducal Police organised in Dommeldange, Luxembourg CEPOL activity&nbsp;11/2025/ONS on Financial Analysis and Investigation.The main objective of the training was to strengthen participants’ investigative skills, promote best practices for the detection and preve...</description>
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            <title>Austrian CNU delivered CEPOL course on organised property crime with a focus on motor vehicle crime </title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 22:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
            <description>International cooperation is essential for combatting cross-border vehicle crime. To this end, the CEPOL National Unit in Austria organised&nbsp;CEPOL Course 20/2025/ONS&nbsp;on ‘Organised property crime – Motor vehicle crime’, in close cooperation with the Federal Criminal Police Office - Departmen...</description>
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