Description
The project will contribute to the increase the effectiveness of national institutions to fight corruption and increase awareness of anti-corruption methods. The objective is to help to designated target groups with fight against corruption practice and money laundering. It shall create an effective IT support system to increase internal effectiveness of the Financial Analytical Office when processing information leading to the uncovering of financial crime and corruption. The challenges related to combating corruption, i.e. investigating corruption-related crime as well as tracing corruption-generated proceeds, could be (at least partially) overcome by the up-to-date, effective and efficient information technologies and technological capacities. Thus the outputs of the project should ensure that the Financial Analytical Office and the National Centre against Organised Crime of the Police of the Czech Republic will have such means and equipment at their disposal when examining or investigating serious criminal activities. The primary target groups are above mentioned units of which IT level and capacities will be improved. Secondary target group is Czech society which will benefit from improved functioning of the state system. Contrary to the component 1, the component 2 will not be realized in partnership with the donor project partner - the Council of Europe.
Summary of project results
The project enhanced technical capacities of the Police of the Czech Republic and Financial Analytical Office (FAO), independent central authority for reporting suspicious financial transactions and their analysis by means of the purchase of HW and SW. New SW for automated data mining was created and implemented on upgraded HW infrastructure of the FAO. By means of the new analytical SW tool enabling advanced analysis of structured and non-structured data, efficiency in analytical phase of reported cases investigations has significantly increased. SW allows for analysis of greater volume of information which results in more profound and grounded analysis that is handed over to relevant authorities responsible for further investigation and prosecution (Policer or tax authorities). SW also substantially saves time and personal capacities of the FAO which may be dedicated to other sophisticated analytical methods. In consequence, higher number of cases may be analysed in-depth and average time necessary for solving a case has decreased approximately by one month. The Police forensic capacities were strengthened via newly purchased equipment.
Summary of bilateral results