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North Macedonia: ICITAP Partners with DEA and EUCOM to Deliver Advanced Cross-Border Financial Investigations Training

On January 21, ICITAP-North Macedonia concluded a five-day regional course in Skopje on Advanced Cross Border Financial Investigations in partnership with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). This U.S. European Command (EUCOM)-sponsored regional course included fourteen counter-narcotics investigators from Albania, Croatia, Greece, Romania, Serbia and North Macedonia. It was designed to provide the participants with an advanced knowledge and skills to apply during financial investigations in regional and international drug trafficking cases. The course was delivered by experienced DEA instructors and included lectures, presentations, practical exercises, case studies, and discussions.  Topics covered focused on international case initiation, money laundering, transnational organized crime case studies, financial interviewing, collecting, analyzing and documenting information, controlled deliveries, informant management, undercover operations, operational planning and critical leadership. The ICITAP-North Macedonia Law Enforcement Assistance Attaché provided closing remarks to include the certificate delivery to the students. In his remarks, the ICITAP Attaché stressed the importance of a sustained regional cooperation of the specialized law enforcement agencies to successfully investigate financial drug-related activities aimed at countering illicit narcotics.

Updated January 20, 2025