9 April 2005	Saturday	29 Safar 1426

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ISLAMABAD, April 8: A UK-based Nottingham Trent University’s Law School will train the officials of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to detect trans-national crimes and money-laundering cases, it is learnt.

The university administration offered the training opportunity during the recent visit of the NAB chairman, Lt-Gen Munir Hafiz, to the United Kingdom. In a statement, Prof Andy Nicol, who deals with the international affairs of the university, said: “The visit was a resounding success and plans are even underway for the Law School to provide the NAB with its expertise and training in the form of short-course provision but increasingly sophisticated fraud means its 2,000 employees constantly need professional training and development.”

“The university’s expertise in flexible short-course provision through the Nottingham Law School means we can assist the government with training in key areas such as money- laundering,” he said.

The bureau is presently evaluating the proposal forwarded by the Nottingham Law School in terms of training requirements, suggested modules, costs involved and overall utility of such training programmes for the enhancement of abilities for prosecution.

Mr Hafiz’s visit to the UK was stated to be part of an overall strategy to interact with the international law institutions with a view to developing strong prosecutorial skills within the bureau specially required in dealing with crimes having international dimensions.

The visit was also aimed at getting familiarisation with the work done by the Law School in the areas of trans-national crimes and asset recovery with specific emphasis on the advocacy training programmes for international agencies like NAB.

The NAB chairman was given a detailed briefing on the expertise and the work done by the School for the Crown Prosecution Service related to international criminality and recovery of proceeds of crime.