Since April 2017, Slovenian police have in cooperation with Austria been implementing a twinning project in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the area of support in the fight against money laundering. The project has been yielding positive results since Bosnia and Herzegovina was during the implementation of the project removed from the grey list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which maintains a list of risky countries in the field of money laundering.

More than 140 missions have been organized together so far in the project, which were attended by more than 1,200 participants from more than 50 institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Furthermore, also several study visits to Slovenia and Austria have been organized.

On this occasion, a conference was held in Sarajevo on April 16, 2019, to raise awareness about the prevention of money laundering and financing of terrorism in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The conference was attended by the project leader, David Smolej, Ph.D., from the Criminal Police Directorate within the General Police Directorate, who, in addition to the representative of the EU Delegation to BiH, Richard Mase, delivered the opening address. They both stressed the importance of the project in the harmonization of national legislation with the standards of the European Union.

At the conference, David Smolej, Ph.D., from the Criminal Police Directorate illustrated the importance of harmonizing Bosnian national legislation with the standards of the European Union.

The project is expected to end in October 2019, when the final results will also be presented at the closing conference.