Financial Crime Investigation Service

Financial Crime Investigation Service under the Ministry of the Interior

State institution

Sermuksniu str. 3, LT-01106 Vilnius, Lithuania

Code of Enterprise 188608786

Reliance +370 5 261 62 05

Fax +370 5 262 18 26
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Projects » PHARE project (in the sphere of money laundering)

On 26 November 2002 the memorandum was signed on Part II of the National PHARE programme, according to which the project 2002/000.601.04.03 “Strengthening of the FCIS administrative and technical capacity, implementing effective measures of money laundering prevention” was financed. Total project value was 1,4 mln. EUR. The project included the part of technical support and the investment part for the purchase of the necessary equipment and renovation of premises.

In 2004 together with the European Consultants Organisation (ECO) the implementation of the Service agreement has been started and completed, according to which 329 persons were trained, 4 study visits to the related EU institutions were arranged and the instructions to the financial leasers were confirmed, seeking to preclude money laundering.

Implementing the investment part, modern analytical software and hardware was purchased. In the same year the renovation of computer infrastructure and protection system was started and finished in May 2005 at the FCIS premises (Šermukšnių 3/ Kaštonų 6), video-monitoring system installed and repair works done. In August 2005 the new information system was installed in Money Laundering Prevention Division, meant for the accumulation and processing of the information sent by the financial and other institutions about the performed financial operations.