Scaak launched the Licensed Fraud Examiner Certification Program, supported by UNDP and financed by the Swiss Coopration Office and the DANIDA program from the Danish Government

2017-10-27 - 10:20

Today, the lectures of the new Certification Program of SCAAK has started, a Licensed Fraud Examiners supported by UNDP and funded by the Swiss Cooperation Office and the DANIDA Government Program of Denmark. On this occasion was held the solemn launch ceremony of this program where before the candidates held the case, Mrs. Ardiana Bunjaku, Executive Director of SCAAK, Mr. Patrick Etienne, Director, Swiss Development and Cooperation Office, Mr. Andrew Russell, UN Development Coordinator / UNDP Resident Representative, and Mr. Riza Shillova, Director of Investigations, Kosovo Police, who spoke about the importance of this program in the fight against corruption as the only way to increase stability, increase public confidence and political institutions of the country and economic development of the country. They also congratulated SCAAK and UNDP for their work on creating this very important program in the service of public interest and congratulated the candidates for this enterprise in their professional upgrading and emphasised the great responsibility they will have the Licensed Fraud Examiners in investigations against corruption in the country.

The Licensed Fraud Examiners was developed by SCAAK and UNDP in order to provide licensed experts with the knowledge, skills, and expertise that are essential to combating corruption as a prerequisite for the development of the economy in Kosovo.


The Licensed Fraud Examiners would greatly accelerate investigations and secure a greater number of corruption indictments and financial crimes indictments.

The first group of candidates for this program consists of fifty police officers, investigators, legal officers, tax officers etc. who are involved in anti-corruption activities. The purpose is that, after their training and certification, the Licensed Fraud Examiners can provide services in the framework of financial crime investigations and thus build local resources capacity in preventing and investigating financial crimes.

After the launch ceremony of the program, a cocktail was held, after which the candidates started the first training lecture.