In partnership with Republic Public Prosecutor's Office, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Finance - Tax Police, OSCE mission in Serbia, by the Administration for the Prevention of Money Laundering and Office of the US Department of Justice of the US Embassy in Belgrade, from March 16 to 18, 2022, a three-day workshop on "Value Added Tax Evasion" was held in the "Cepter" hotel in Vrnjačka Banja as part of the training program for public prosecutors, judges, judicial and prosecutor's assistants, and employees in institutions which are provided by the Law on the Organization and Competence of State Authorities in Suppression of Organized Crime, Terrorism and Corruption.

The goals of the workshop were to increase the capacity of basic/senior prosecutors, police inspectors, tax police officers and other representatives of regulatory bodies to proactively investigate and initiate proceedings for issues of economic crime, tax crimes and corruption.

The topics covered at this workshop were:

- Proactive investigation: development of the task force and the role of the liaison officer, recognition of suspicious elements in documents indicating VAT evasion, introduction to accounting (balance sheet and profit and loss account)
- Searching open databases in the investigation, searching open sources of information
- Financial investigation and detection of illegal income, financial investigation in the USA
- Proving tax evasion
- Analysis of the connection between tax evasion and money laundering and organized crime, VAT evasion, money laundering and organized crime
- Jurisdiction of the Administration for the Prevention of Money Laundering
- Search warrants in financial fraud
- Calculation of evaded VAT
- The role of experts in tax evasion cases

The instructors were:

- David Jennings, US Embassy in Belgrade
- Dejan Simić, coordinator in the Tax Police Sector, Belgrade
- Dragana Stojadinović, financial forensic expert in Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime
- Dragan Vasilev, criminal inspector of the Financial Investigation Unit
- Ivan Konatar, basic public prosecutor in Mladenovac

- Sanja Kijanović, Directorate for the Prevention of Money Laundering
- Vojislav Isailović, deputy prosecutor for organized crime
- Miroslav Krkelić, senior public prosecutor in Subotica
- Milan Pejčić, police major, head of the Department for Coordination and Planning, OBPK
- Radmila Jovanović, deputy senior public prosecutor in Belgrade

This training was attended by basic prosecutors, deputy public prosecutors, judges, tax officers and officers of the police administration from the territory of the Kragujevac appeal.