Award Ceremony for SCAAK Certified Licensed Fraud Examiners
2019-03-26 - 05:57
Today, March 26, 2019, was held the SCAAK certificate award ceremony for public sector officials who have successfully finished a year-long course in forensic accounting to become Licensed Fraud Examiners, this program is supported by UNDP and funded by the Swiss Office for Cooperation and DANIDA Program of the Danish Government.
The Program for Licensed Fraud Examiner was developed by SCAAK and UNDP in order to prepare licensed fraud examiners by providing them with the necessary knowledge, skills and expertise that are essential to combating corruption as a prerequisite for development of the Kosovo economy. Licensed Fraud Examiners will greatly accelerate investigations and provide a greater number of indictments for corruption and financial crime cases.
Welcoming remarks were held by Mr. Patrick Etienne - Director of the Swiss Development Cooperation Office (SDC), Mr. Anders Kragh Bingen - from the Danish International Development Assistance (DANIDA), Valbona Bogujevci - UNDP Assistant Resident Representative and Ms. Ardiana Bunjaku - Executive Director of SCAAK, who spoke about the importance of this program in the fight against corruption as the only way to increase stability, increase public confidence in public institutions and economic development of the country.
Mr. Patrick Etienne during his speech congratulated UNDP and SCAAK for efforts to design this program. Meanwhile, Mr. Andre Kragh Bingen emphasized that this program and this certification is very important in combating corruption and financial crimes. Further, Mrs. Bunjaku congratulated officials of public institutions for their dedication to the program of the Licensed Fraud Examiners Program, considering it as a program that requires a lot of work, and thanked donors and UNDP for co-operation in the development and implementation of the certification program.
Keynote speeches were delivered by Mr. Aleksandër Lumezi - Chief State Prosecutor, Mr. Rashit Qalaj - General Director of Kosovo Police, Mr. Shaip Havolli - Director of the Anti-Corruption Agency, Mr. Dardan Nuhiu - Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit of Kosovo, Mr. Ilir Murtezaj - Director of the Tax Administration of Kosovo and Mr. Bahri Berisha - Director of the Kosovo Customs.
Head of the Public Institutions thanked the donors for this project, UNDP and SCAAK for the implementation of the specialized program and congratulated dhe certified candidates of this program, emphasizing that they will be assets within public institutions with the skills and expertise to fight corruption, economic crimes and informal economy.
The first group of certified candidates in this program was comprised of officials of Kosovo Police, Special Prosecution Office of Kosovo, Financial Intelligence Unit of Kosovo, Tax Administration of Kosovo, Anti-Corruption Agency, Kosovo Customs, and BIRN who are involved in anti-corruption activities.
