Morocco Hosts International Workshop on Combating Money Laundering

Co-organized by the Overseas Prosecutors Development, Assistance and Training Office of the United States Department of Justice and the Government of Morocco, this meeting brings together specialists in criminal prosecution and judicial investigations in the fight against money laundering, from the United States, the United Kingdom and Morocco.

During the proceedings, they will discuss the Moroccan legal tools available to attach money laundering charges to substantive criminal charges, as well as specific techniques to develop more in-depth financial investigations.

The participants will also examine the measures that prosecutors in each country can employ, together with law enforcement agency partners, in money laundering investigations.

The opening ceremony was chaired by the Secretary General of the National Financial Intelligence Authority Hassan Ennasr and the US Consul General in Casablanca Lawrence Randolph. More than twenty-four Moroccan prosecutors, specialists in money laundering offenses, are taking part in this meeting.