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Activity 2.2. The Criminal Law Protection of the Financial Interests of the European Union – Special Issues: Money Laundering and Corruption

Event start date:03. July 2018. 07:40
Event end date:4. July 2018.
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Criminal law protection of the financial interests of the EU – Focusing on money laundering, tax fraud, corruption and on criminal compliance in the national legal systems with reference to cybercrime

 

HERCULE III PROJECT— HUUNIMISKOLCPFI 786253

 

W o r k s h o p

The Criminal Law Protection of the Financial Interests of the European Union – Special Issues: Money Laundering and Corruption

Vienna University of Economics and Business

Date: 2-4th July 2018

Project Activity 2.2.

 

This workshop was funded by the European Union’s HERCULE III programme.

 

The content of this workshop represents the views of the authors only and is his/her sole responsibility. The European Commission does not accept any responsibility for use that may be made of the information it contains.

 

The programme of the workshop

 

Aim of the workshop: The fight against money laundering and corruption from EU legal and practical point of view with regard to the protection of the financial interests of the European Union.

Organizers: Faculty of Law of the University of Miskolc, the Association of Hungarian Lawyers for the European Criminal Law, Research Centre for European Criminal Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Miskolc, Institute for Austrian and European Economic Criminal Law of the Vienna University of Economics and Business

 

2nd July (Monday)

19.00 Welcome Dinner

3rd July (Tuesday)

Venue: Vienna University of Economics and Business, Room TC.5.01

https://campus.wu.ac.at/?campus=1&q=TC.5.01

8:15-8:30 Registration

8:30-8:40 Welcome & Opening of the workshop

Prof. Dr. Robert Kert (Head of Institute, Institute for Austrian and European Economic Criminal Law, Vienna University of Economics and Business)

Prof. Dr. Ákos Farkas (Dean, University of Miskolc, Faculty of Law)

8.40-9.00 new developments of the Fight against Cybercrime in the EU

Claudia Warken (Seconded National Expert Fight Against Cybercrime, Directorate General for Migration and Home Affairs (HOME), Unit D.4: Cybercrime, European Commission, Brussels)

9.00-9.20 The new fraud policy of the European Union – implementation requirement in Austria

Dr. Christian Manquet (Senior Public Prosecutor, Section IV. Criminal Law, Department IV.1. Substantive Criminal Law, Ministry of Justice, Austria)

9.20-9.30 Discussion, questions

 

1st Section

Chairman: Prof. Dr. Robert Kert (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

 

Effective Combat of the Money Laundering and Corruption in Austria

Practical Questions and Answers

 

9.30-9.45 Combating corruption in the prosecutor's practice

MMag. Eberhard Pieber LL.M. (Senior Public Prosecutor, Economic and Corruption Prosecutor, Vienna)

9.45-10.00 Compliance measures against economic corruption

Prof. Dr. Richard Soyer (Head of Institute, University of Linz)

10.00-10.15 Combatting money laundering – From the point of view of public prosecutors’ practice

Prof. Dr. Gabriele Aicher (First Advocate General, General Procuratorate of the Supreme Court)

10.15-10.30 Combating money laundering in judicial practice

Mag. Dr. Christian Böhm (Judge, Regional Criminal Court of Vienna)

10.30-11.00 Discussion, questions

11.00-11.30 Coffee break (Library Cafe WU Wien)

 

2nd Section

Chairman: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Dannecker (University of Heidelberg)

 

Good practice in the fight against money laundering and corruption in other member states I.

 

11.30-11.45 Experience from Germany

Legal framework and characteristics of the German money laundering law and the fight against corruption in Germany

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Dannecker (Head of Department, University of Heidelberg)

11.45-12.00 Practical problems and answers

Dr. Vanessa Seibel (Public Prosecutor, Public Prosecutor’s Office of Mannheim)

12.00-12.15 Experience from Greece

Punishing corruption in the public and the private sector: key issues on current EU policy and rule-of-law challenges

Prof. Dr. Maria Kaiafa Gbandi (Head of Department, University of Thessaloniki)

Fighting Money Laundering in Greece

Dr. Theodoros Papakyriakou (Associate Professor, University of Thessaloniki)

12.15-12.30 Experience from Italy

Fighting Money Laundering and Corruption in Italy

Dr. Vincenzo Carbone (Rome Bar Association – Lawyer and Member of the “Anti-Money Laundering” Commission)

12.30-13.00 Discussion, question

13.00-14.00 Lunch break

 

3rd Section

Chairman: Prof. Dr. Ákos Farkas (University of Miskolc)

 

Good practice in the fight against money laundering and corruption in other member states II.

 

14.00-14.15 Experience from Romania

Fighting money laundering in Romania

Prof. Dr. Valentin Mirisan (Dean, University of Oradea) – Dr. Diana Cirmaciu (Vice Dean, University of Oradea)

14.15-14.30 Fighting corruption in Romania

Prof. Dr. Valentin Mirisan (Dean, University of Oradea) – Dr. Cristian Mihes (Head of Institute, University of Oradea)

14.30-14.45 Experience from Hungary: Legal framework

Fighting Money Laundering in Hungary

Dr. Judit Jacsó PhD (Vice Dean, Associate Professor, University of Miskolc) – Dr. Udvarhelyi Bence PhD (Scientific Researcher, University of Miskolc)

14.45-15.00 Regulation of corruption in the new criminal code

Dr. Sándor Madai PhD (Head of Department, Associate Professor, University of Debrecen)

15.00-15.15 Coffee break (Library Cafe WU Wien)

15.15-15.30 Experience from Hungary: Practical questions

Fighting money laundering and corruption in the prosecutors’ practice

Dr. Ádám Péceli (Public Prosecutor, Department of Terrorism, Money Laundering and Military Offenses, Office of the Prosecutor General of Hungary) – Dr. Melinda Szabó (Public Prosecutor, Head of Section, Chief Prosecutor’s Office of the Capital)

15.30-15.45 Fighting money laundering and corruption in judicial practice

Dr. Szabolcs Hornyák (Judge, National Office of Judiciary)

15.45-16.00 Interdisciplinary perspectives

Money laundering compliance – a means of protecting the EU's financial interests

Prof. Dr. Severin Glaser (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

16.00-16.15 Criminological aspects of corruption

Dr. Erika Váradi-Csema (Vice Dean, Associate Professor, University of Miskolc)

16.15-16.30 Money laundering in cybercrime

dr. László Dornfeld (PhD Student, University of Miskolc)

16.30-16.45 whistleblowers’ protection – legal consequences

Beata Baran PhD (Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University, Cracow)

16.45-17.15 Discussion, questions

19.00 Dinner

 

4th July (Wednesday)

Venue: Vienna University of Economics and Business, Room D3.3.274

https://campus.wu.ac.at/?campus=1&q=D3.3.274 

 

9.00-10.00 Conclusion & Results of the workshop

Prof. Dr. Robert Kert (Head of Institute, Institute for Austrian and European Economic Criminal Law, Vienna University of Economics and Business)

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Dannecker (University of Heidelberg)

Prof. Dr. Ákos Farkas (Dean, University of Miskolc, Faculty of Law)

10.00-11.00 Discussing the next workshop & presentation of the hercule-Project-website (English version)

Prof. Dr. Ákos Farkas (Dean, University of Miskolc, Faculty of Law)

11.00 Departure

 

Please note that pictures will be taken during the course of the event. By attending the workshop, you acknowledge that the organizers may take pictures of you as part of the audience, and that these images may be used for communication purposes of the HERCULE III HUUNISMISKOLCPFI project.