23/2024/ONS: Excise fraud investigations

The aim of this onsite activity is to enhance the fight against excise fraud by improving the knowledge on the existing patterns of excise fraud, by exchanging good practices of excise investigations and by facilitating the use of financial investigative techniques in excise fraud cases.

The course aims to discuss all forms of excise fraud while paying particular attention to cigarette smuggling and illegal manufacturing of cigarettes.

EMPACT training activity

Combating new forms of organised crime requires more cooperation between police and gendarmes, customs officers, border guards, judges, and prosecutors. EU institutions, agencies and Member States work together to tackle organised and serious international crime through a permanent and key instrument: the European Multidisciplinary Platform Against Criminal Threats (EMPACT).

CEPOL plays a crucial role in the EMPACT mechanism through the provision of specialised training and the identification of training needs within each common security threat. Every year, CEPOL provides a comprehensive training package for each common EU crime priority consisting of onsite, online and exchange training activities.

Check more of CEPOL's EMPACT training activities here.