2020 was seen as a year that is very tough for all form of group gathering and convening. Despite of this situation, capacity building trainings have to be conducted inevitably because corruption is also evolving in every context especially during crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic. Responding to this constrain, ACU has conducted and participated in 28 training courses and workshops internally and externally in the form of face-to-face and virtually by complying with protection measures of the Ministry of Health and the WHO strictly mostly on investigation, public procurement, integrity of public officials, public fund management, especially on anti-corruption and related legal proceeding.
However, on 12-14 October 2020, in partnership with UNODC, ACU organized a virtual training on corruption investigation chaired by ACU highest leaders as well as speakers from UNODC such as Mr. Richard Messick, former Prosecutor and International Anti-Corruption Expert, UNODC; Ms. Cornelia Kortl, Associate Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer (Anti-Corruption), UNODC. The training focused on basic principles and techniques for conducting financial investigations in corruption cases: tracing assets and following the money into accounts in other nations; main elements of the investigation; international standard of customer due diligence and procedures to trace client background in financial institution; classifying events of the offence on timeline and how to use it in investigation; legal person investigation, cooperation with financial investigation unit (FIU) and how to request banking information and information on legal persons in Cambodia and abroad; corruption in Mega-Project such as infrastructure mega-project.
Virtual training on corruption investigation organized by ACU in partnership with UNODC on 12-14 October 2020
