Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing are global phenomena. Due to its geographical location, Romania is especially vulnerable to financial activities associated with Money Laun­dering and Terrorism Financing. For instance, Romania is a significant transit country for narcotics as it lies along the well-established Northern Balkan route for opium, morphine base, heroin, and chemical precursors moving from Afghanistan to Central and Western Europe. In order to prevent and combat the misuse of the Romanian and international financial system for money laundering and terrorism financing purposes, the Romanian AML/CFT legislation is based on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) 40+9 recommendations and harmonized with European communitarian acquis.

The goals of the project are reducing corruption and related crimes in Romania by strengthen-ing the Romanian AML/CFT institutional system. In particular, the project will focus on strengthening the professional capacity of NOPCML and other main actors in the fight against Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing.

The direct beneficiary is the National Office for Prevention and Control of Money Laundering (NOPCML, Romania's Financial Intelligence Unit) as the institution responsible for the implementation of the project, as well as reporting entities, law enforcement authorities and supervision bodies. The indirect beneficiary is the general public in Romania.

• Procurement of IT software for analysis of the financial information.
• Procurement of hardware supporting acquired software solution for analysis of the financial information.
• Strengthening professional capacity of main actors involved in AML/CFT.

Achieved results:   Due to insufficient progress in the past years, Switzerland was obliged to terminate the project. No results can be reported.

Phase 10 22.04.2014 - 22.04.2016   (Completed)