Rwanda’s economic growth and development is gradually attracting modern crimes that require adjustments in investigation techniques by the prosecution.
Rwanda’s Prosecution announced Tuesday that the Office of the Ombudsman in Collaboration with a German cooperation agency GIZ have stated a five day training on Financial Investigation and Asset tracing.
“This training consists of Prosecutors, state attorneys, investigators and other officials dealing with financial related crimes,” Prosecution said.
The desire to become rich very quick has led to crafty methods of embezzlement of public funds, bribery and eventual stealth amassing of wealth by public officials and their networks. Financial crime has become of concern to governments throughout the world.
Some of the most common crimes facing the financial sector are money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud, tax evasion, embezzlement, forgery, counterfeiting, and identity theft.
Rwandan detectives and other agencies and persons involved in the fight against such vices require refresher courses and training to equip them with skills of dealing with modern crimes.
For example in April technology experts met at Cloud and Security Summit in Kigali seeking a sustainable response to the growing threat of cybercrimes which cost the world $600 billion- according to the 2018 report by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and McAfee.
According to data from National Bank of Rwanda, in 2018 cybercriminals stole Rwf289.5 million in 22 separate incidences.
“We need to put in place strategies that ensure that all stakeholders across the entire ecosystem work together to address some of these challenges,” last year Paula Ingabire ICT Minister told the summit.
The Express News