Belgrade, 31 Dec 2014 – The Serbian government adopted at today's session the National Strategy for Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism, which includes strategic planning, coordination and cooperation of all institutions in order to decrease the risk of money laundering and terrorism financing.

The strategy is also aimed at preventing the introduction of the assets that are suspected to be the proceeds of crime into the financial system and other sectors, as well as the detecting and prosecuting the offenders and confiscating the illegally acquired assets.

The national strategy covers the period to 2018 and provides for the formation of professional teams that will work on the prevention of money laundering and terrorism financing​.