On 23 November, the OSCE Transnational Threats Department and the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan organized a lecture on cryptocurrency-related crimes for the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Tashkent.
The OSCE briefed around 120 cadets and lecturers from the Academy about concepts and mechanisms related to cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrency transactions, the role cryptocurrencies can play in facilitating crime, methods and approaches for investigating cryptocurrency-related crimes, and trends in the evolution of cryptocurrency market in Uzbekistan as well as in Central Asia.
"Cryptocurrencies are an ever-more important part of the cybercrime landscape, as they provide a useful tool for criminals to fund, hide and launder the profits of their illicit activities. Understanding how cryptocurrencies work and how to investigate crimes involving them is therefore a crucial part of the contemporary law enforcement toolkit. We are delighted to support our partners in Uzbekistan to deepen their knowledge on this critical issue," said Martha Stickings, Deputy Head of the Strategic Police Matters Unit and Adviser on Cybercrime at the OSCE.
Speakers included experts from the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, the Law Enforcement Academy of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and private sector.
The in-person event was a culmination of the webinar series on trends in contemporary policing launched in the autumn last year. In total, the OSCE delivered seven webinars on a wide range of topics, including countering the use of the internet for terrorist purposes, cybercrime and cyber-enabled crime, intelligence-led policing, gender-based violence, malware and ransomware, online payment frauds, and Dark Web criminal landscape.
The events complemented the national and regional training activities conducted by the OSCE in Uzbekistan under the extra-budgetary project "Capacity building on combating cybercrime in Central Asia".
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