Exchange of good practices between AFCOS Directorate within the Ministry of Interior and the Financial Crime Investigation Service in Lithuania

From 8 to 13 June 2014 AFCOS Directorate’s officials realized a Study visit to Vilnius, Lithuania. The visit was carried out with the support of the Project № 0119-AFCOS-1.7 “Providing for and supporting the AFCOS Directorate activities with regard to its work under the Structural and Cohesion Fund (SCF)” funded under the Technical Assistance Operational Programme.

The Bulgarian delegation has had meetings with the Director and representatives from the Financial Crime investigation Service and with the Deputy Chief Prosecutor and representatives from the Prosecutor General’s Office in Lithuania. Meetings were also held in the National Audit Office of the Republic of Lithuania, Ministry of Finance, “Transparency International” – Lithuania, National Paying Agency under the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Lithuania. The delegation was received also by the Central project Management Agency of the Republic of Lithuania and Lithuanian Business Support Agency.

The topics of the meeting were to present the structures of institutions and organizations, their main functions and tasks, legislative base, and cooperation at the National and the European level. During the conversations were also discussed specific case studies in the Republic of Lithuania and Bulgaria related to the prevention, establishment, detection, counteraction of irregularities and fraud under projects co-financed by the European Union.