It addresses policymakers, investigative authorities, and private stakeholders, providing suggestions to advance operational cooperation from a legal and practical standpoint.
This guide sees contributions from numerous EFIPPP public and private sector members, observers, and other experts, and provides best practices and lessons learned, drawing from the EFIPPP’s experience and from other existing cooperative mechanisms.
The EFIPPP provides an overview of collaborative mechanisms between over 90 stakeholders, Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) and law enforcement agencies to address structured threat information across the community.
In the past decade, public-private partnerships across the world have played a crucial role in enabling cooperation. However, this public-private cooperation has been less present in the fight against financial crime, meaning that investigative authorities may miss opportunities to improve their response to financial crime.
EFIPPP's Practical Guide seeks to build awareness among policymakers and relevant authorities about the added value of public-private cooperation. It outlines objectives, benefits, methods and conditions for cooperation, as well as the key factors that legislative frameworks need to accommodate.
The guide was based on existing operational cooperative mechanisms in Denmark, Ireland, Latvia, Sweden, the Netherlands, and the UK, and it encourages the collaboration between private and public stakeholders against financial crime.
In January 2025, law enforcement in Europe cracked down on a criminal network that abused the EU’s temporary protection status to move EUR 35.7 million. The initiative was coordinated by Spanish, Cypriot, German, and French authorities, with support from Europol and Eurojust, and led to the arrest of multiple suspects and the seizure of several criminal assets, following raids conducted in October 2024.
The suspects are believed to have abused the temporary protection status granted to Ukrainian refugees by the EU since 2022.
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