SENEGAL-ADMINISTRATION-FORMATION / Fighting financial crime: ONRAC and CFJ pool their efforts

The Office national de recouvrement des avoirs criminels (ONRAC) and the Centre de formation judiciaire (CFJ) signed a partnership agreement in Dakar on Thursday, to jointly run training programs and enhance the skills of magistrates and other players in the judicial world in the fight against "economic and financial crime".

"I am pleased to remind you that the purpose of this protocol is to strengthen the cooperation framework we are putting in place with the CFJ, for the development of joint training programs and capacity building for magistrates and other judicial players", said Malick Lamotte, ONRAC's Managing Director, at the signing of the agreement.of joint training programs and capacity building for magistrates and other judicial players", said Malick Lamotte, ONRAC's Managing Director, at the signing of the agreement.

According to him, the partnership agreement is an opportunity for the two public entities, which carry out training and assistance missions for judicial players.

Through this initiative, ONRAC and CFJ aim to strengthen their "mechanism for combating economic and financial crime, through the training of players in the criminal justice system".

According to its Managing Director, ONRAC intends to use the partnership with the CFJ to better "carry out its technical assistance missions, by strengthening the capacities of those involved in the criminal chain".s of those involved in the criminal justice system", whom it wants to "help to better operate in the fight against financial crime, in relation to the law of seizure and confiscation".

"The purpose of this partnership agreement is to formalize the collaboration between the two entities", explained Malick Lamotte.

The Judicial Training Centre "will need ONRAC's experts to develop its training modules", particularly in "seizure and confiscation of criminal assets, both nationally and internationally", explained its Managing Director.

"ONRAC will be our technical arm in defining training modules", added Mr. Guèye, noting that "there is not enough synergy" between the two public structures.

Source: aps.sn/