iPROCEEDS: pilot training on Investigation on Darknet and Virtual currencies

The Darknet is becoming increasingly a place where illegal activity thrives and criminals function in perceived anonymity. Reportedly, almost 30% of hidden services on Tor relate to some form of illicit activity, such as selling illicit drugs, weapons, compromised data, counterfeit pharmaceuticals, chemicals and other illicit products.

Cybercrime Programme Office (C-PROC) of the Council of Europe in the framework of iPROCEEDS project and in cooperation with Romania’s Directorate for the Investigation of Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) is organising a pilot training on “Investigation on Darknet and Virtual currencies” with the support of the law enforcement officers from Austria, Belgium and The Netherlands. This training was developed under EMPACT framework and it has been facilitated by the European Cybercrime Training and Education Group (ECTEG).

The action will involve cybercrime investigators, financial investigators, other phenomena experts and prosecutors who will learn how to work in a practical way in detecting, identifying, collecting intelligence and evidence in order to prosecute all criminal activities on the Darknet or using virtual currencies.

The training seeks to increase the skills, expertise and knowledge of the law enforcement officers on investigating the Darknet and virtual currencies that would result in more efficient and effective investigative efforts, having a direct impact on the criminal threat.

The target group of the activity are law enforcement officials having to deal with crimes facilitated by use of Internet Dark Web sites, as well as financial investigators and prosecutors from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, Turkey Kosovo*¹ and Romania.

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Source: Cybercrime  of Council of Europe