Completed/terminated procedure

The pre-defined project aims at increasing citizens’ security by continuing to upgrade the effectiveness and efficiency of the Asset Recovery System in Bulgaria. The project will strengthen the systems for combating corruption, tracing, seizing and forfeiting proceeds of crime, which is a crucial step towards the implementation of Bulgaria's priority of preventing and combating organized crime and corruption, reinstating justice and compensating the victims of crime. The project will enhance the capacities of staff of the CACIAF to conduct anti-corruption investigations and to trace criminal assets, in particular in cross-border cases; it will develop the international counterpart networks available to the CACIAF to pursue confiscations abroad and participate in joint investigative teams. It will also allow the CACIAF to effectively cooperate bilaterally with foreign authorities by forfeiting assets on behalf of their counterparts. Furthermore, the project will improve the knowledge and skills of CACIAF staff in core areas of legal aspects and enhance the IT infrastructure of the Commission.