United States Partners with Vietnam and U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime on Anti-Money Laundering Course

December 3, 2007

The United States and Vietnam, in cooperation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), began a week-long training course today on fighting Money Laundering.  U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission Jonathan Aloisi participated in the opening of the course, which is part of UNODC’s anti-money laundering assistance project in Vietnam.  Training will cover financial investigation techniques and will feature speakers from the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Technical Assistance and from the Vietnamese government.  

U.S. Government participants will share experiences and best practices in anti-money laundering prevention, legislation and investigation as part of ongoing bilateral cooperation on anti-money laundering efforts.  The financial investigation techniques course is the first course to be offered as part of the UNODC’s Project “Strengthening of the Legal and Law Enforcement Institutions in Preventing and Combating Money-Laundering in Vietnam,” launched on September 17th, 2007.