The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) opened a training course for executive and judicial officers on skills to detect and prevent money laundering in Ho Chi Minh City on Nov. 11.

The two-day course aims to provide trainees with basic knowledge on money laundering, detection skills, prevention methods and investigation, prosecution and trial procedures for money laundering criminals.

On the occasion, the MPS’s General Department of Crime Prevention opened a training centre on money laundering prevention with a system of UNODC computers equipped with special software on money laundering curricula.

Earlier on Nov. 8, a similar training centre also opened at the Academy of People ’s Police.

The establishment of the two centres is part of UNODC’s technical assistance project for Vietnam , which aims to raise the capacity of Vietnamese executive and judicial officers in fighting money laundering crime.

According to Tran Van Thanh, the UNODC Project Country Coordinator, after three years of implementation, the 1.2 million USD project has trained over 1,000 Vietnamese executive and judicial officers./.