OPDAT delivered Pan American Anti-money laundering / Counter Terrorism Financing Seminar Series to more than 250 prosecutors, judges, and analysts from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. From October to December 2020, OPDAT has held six virtual webinars with corresponding virtual working group sessions to combat money laundering and terrorist financing in the Western Hemisphere linked to transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). The series shares emerging trends and best practices related to financial crimes investigations and will help strengthen cross-border cooperation throughout the Americas against money laundering and terrorist financing.
Participants have learned about different money laundering typologies, including (1) a global overview of money laundering; (2) special techniques of investigation for cross-border money-laundering cases through import/export activities; (3) money laundering connected to drug-trafficking transnational criminal organizations; (4) money laundering through currency exchange houses and money services businesses; and (5) detecting and advancing terrorist financing investigations.