"We are trying to improve cooperation with the prosecutor's offices of the region in order to contribute to the suppression of cross-border crime," said Supreme State Prosecutor Maja Jovanović.
She said this during a meeting with the Vice President of the European Agency for Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Justice (EUROJUST), Boštjan Škrlec.
In the coming period, EUROJUST will implement the project "Improving cross-border cooperation in criminal justice in the Western Balkans", whose goal is to improve cross-border cooperation between the European Union and the countries of the Western Balkans in cases of serious and organized crime, according to the announcement.
Jovanović pointed out that cooperation with EUROJUST is of special importance.
"In this sense, the State Prosecutor's Office will actively participate in providing full support to the implementation of this project, which will contribute to the improvement of cross-border cooperation in the region in cases of serious and organized crime," she pointed out.
The interlocutors agreed that the implementation of the project through the active participation of representatives of the Prosecutor's Office of all six countries of the region, with the support of EUROJUST, will contribute to more effective investigations in specific cases.
The meeting was attended by the Chief Special Prosecutor, Vladimir Novović, as well as the State Prosecutor for Liaison with the Agency, Jelena Đaletić.
The Minister of Justice, Marko Kovač, met with the vice president of EUROJUST, the topic of the meeting was the WB CRIM JUST regional project.
Eurojust is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and for that purpose it will mark its work by implementing a project related to the Western Balkans.
And the goal of this project is to strengthen cross-border, regional cooperation in order for the countries of the Western Balkans to effectively deal with serious cases of organized crime in such a way that state prosecutors and relevant actors will join together and work together on such cases, the announcement states.
"We want to provide technical and operational support to Montenegro, which will join forces with the other six countries and work in parallel with their research teams and prosecutors on cases of organized crime that are daily topics of public opinion," Škrlec said.
As he says, "European experts will be available to share their experiences with representatives of the Western Balkans, whereby each country will choose two representatives".
"European experts will share modern tools for the fight against organized crime with the state prosecutors of Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania, Kosovo and North Macedonia," Škrlec added.
The meeting was also attended by the Acting Director General of the Directorate for International Judicial Cooperation, Branimir Janjević, and the State Prosecutor for the Liaison of Montenegro in EUROJUST, Jelena Đaletić.
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