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| Welcome to GDPML |
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The General Directorate for the Prevention of Money Laundering is the Albanian Financial Intelligence Unit and Albania's anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regulator. GDPML was established under the Anti-Money Laundering Law in 2001 and is continued in existence by the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Law 2008 (AML/CTF Act).
In its regulatory role, GDPML oversees compliance with the requirements of the AML/CTF Law and by Law's a wide range of financial services providers, non financial services providers and others. The AML/CTF Law came into effect on date 10 September 2008.
In its intelligence role, GDPML provides information to Albanian law enforcement agencies and General Prosecuter Office of Republic of Albania.
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| Closing ceremony of the twining project and meeting with the Spanish counterpart |
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On 18 April 2013 the General Director of GDPML Mr. Arben DOÇI held a working meeting with Mr. Manuel CARO Director of the Spanish Financial Intelligence Unit (SEPBLAC), discussing the current progress of the cooperation in the framework of the twining project, its impact on the performance of GDPML, international developments in the field of prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing and effective implementation of the Financial Action Task Force standards. One of the topics elaborated in this meeting was further enhancement of cooperation among those two units in order to ensure the ongoing implementation of the cooperation memorandum signed on October 2012, in Madrid. |
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| Participation in the last activity of the twinning project |
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General Directorate for the Prevention of Money Laundering (GDPML) has continuously participated in the activities of the Twinning Project Support for structures of the fight against money laundering and financial crimes investigation structures in Albania, as one of the beneficiary institutions, along the General Prosecutor (GP), General Directorate of State Police (GDSP) and the Agency for the Administration of Sized and Confiscated Assets (AASCA).
In the framework of this project, its last activity was held in Vlora on 15-17 April 2013, with a broad participation from the beneficiary institutions as well as the Ministry of Justice, the Bank of Albania, the School of Magistrates, the Financial Supervisory Authority, the General Directorate of Taxation, the General Directorate of Customs, the Gaming Supervision, Bankers Association and over 15 judges from various levels of the judiciary.
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| Regional Conference |
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A regional conference was organized in Tirana on 27-28 March 2013, in the framework of the project "Support for structures of the fight against money laundering and financial crimes investigation structures in Albania", that was attended by experts from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, France, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Romania, Spain and United Kingdom. Representatives from the General Prosecution, the Bank of Albania, Albanian State Police, the General Directorate for the Prevention of Money Laundering, Agency for Administration of Seized and Confiscated Assets as well as the National Chamber of Notaries of Albania. The participants were grëted at the inception of the conference by Mr. Adriatik LLALLA Prosecutor General of the Republic of Albania.
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| The President of the Republic H.E Mr. Bujar NISHANI in a meeting with prosecutors: |
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On February 19th 2013, the President of the Republic of Albania H.E. Mr. Bujar NISHANI held a meeting with the GeneralProsecutor - Mr. Adriatik LLALLA, the General Director of the General Directorate for the Prevention of Money Laundering (GDPML) - Z. Arben DOÇI and Heads from the Prosecution for Serious Crimes, Prosecutionof Tirana and Joint Investigation Units.
During the meeting, which was broadly covered by the media, the President expressed the institutional support, highlighted the heretofore achievements and urged the intensification of inter-institutional cooperation as well as revitalization of investigative work by the Prosecution Office, emphasizing among other things that:
-"Mr. General Prosecutor, Mr. General Director, I would like once again to underline the strong position that the President of the Republic will have on the side of your institutions, to support the professional and institutional courage of any prosecutor, any employee of the General Directorate for the Prevention of Money Laundering.
-There have been many encouragingcases on the fight against organized crime and money laundering, that have been investigated by several agencies, including the State Police, the General Directorate for the Prevention of Money Laundering, and of course, and then being concluded by in depth investigations from the Prosecution. Cases that have led to the seizure of significant financial and economic assets, but this is not enough. "
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| The meeting of the Interagency Committee for Measures against organized crime, trafficking and terrorism |
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On 15 January 2013,under the leadership of Prime Minister Berisha, was held the meeting of the Interagency Committee for Measures against organized crime, trafficking and terrorism, in which participated the Minister of Interior, Minister of Finance, Minister of Defense, Deputy / Minister of Justice, General Prosecutor, General Director of National Informational Service, General Director and Deputy General Director of State Police,General Director and Deputy General Director of the Prevention of Money Laundering, Director ofSeized and ConfiscatedAsset Management Agency.
Premier Berisha praised the efforts made in the recent years and expressed that the fight against organized crime, of all its forms, with the focus on the economic crime, trafficking and terrorism is and remains the first and major objective of all law enforcement agencies, and other agencies, in order to guarantee the lives of citizens, to ensure public and constitutional order of the country.
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