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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

In the service of citizens

Cooperation of Interior Ministry, Europol in fight against hi-tech crime, corruption

Belgrade/The Hague, 8 March 2013

State Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior Vladimir Bozovic and his associates began late yesterday a two-day official visit to Europol in The Hague with a meeting with deputy directors of Europol Oldrich Martinu and Michel Quille and their associates.

The announcement from the Ministry of the Interior said that during the meeting they discussed the current and future cooperation, especially in light of the opening of negotiations on the conclusion of an operational agreement with Europol.

At the meeting, Martinu presented head of the new European Cybercrime Centre Troels Oerting.

A visit to this centre was organised at which Head of Operations Paul Gillen acquainted the guests with the structure, methodology and work of the centre.

Due to the need of the EU to fight crime in the digital era, the EU Council formally endorsed the establishment of the centre in the Europol headquarters in The Hague since June 2012, which began operations on 1 January this year.

Representatives of the Serbian Ministry of the Interior are the second delegation to officially visit this centre after Finland, and the first non-member of the EU.

The Delegation of the Ministry of the Interior has thus demonstrated the need for operational support, coordination and expertise that this centre can provide to criminal investigations in Serbia, especially in the fight against cyber crime and corruption by tracking the flow of money and returning it to the citizens of Serbia from whom it was misappropriated.

On the second day of the official visit, a meeting with Director of Europol Rob Wainwright is scheduled at which all aspects of successful strategic cooperation to date will be examined and future steps of operative police cooperation between Europol and the Ministry of the Interior will be agreed upon, whose implementation is expected to be completed by the end of this year, it is added in the statement.