A course on the prevention of money laundering opened in Ho Chi Minh City on July 14 for lecturers from police and judicial training institutes and universities.

The two-week course is part of a three-year project on “Strengthening the Capacity of Legal and Law Enforcement Institutions in Preventing and Combating Money Laundering in Vietnam” signed by the Vietnamese Government and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in June 2007.

The project aims to improve the capacity for judicial and law enforcement staff in the detection, investigation, prosecution and trial of money laundering criminals.