Detective Sergeant (DS) Cavallo Soane of the Royal Gibraltar Police Economic Crime Unit’s Fraud Squad was invited to address this year’s Europol Training course on Payment Card Fraud Forensics and Investigations.

The course was held between the 25th and 29th June 2018 at the Spanish National Police Academy in Avila. The course focused on the forensic examination of skimming devices, payment card and ATM malware forensics, as well as investigative techniques to target criminal networks responsible for international payment fraud incidents.

DS Soane was amongst 33 speakers from law enforcement agencies, members of the European Commission, Europol and members of the private sector and academia invited to address the 74 delegates; comprised of Investigators, Forensic experts and trainers from 27 different countries.

DS Soane’s presentation delved into:

• How the RGP are able to assist other jurisdictions through the Camden Assets Recovery Interagency Network (CARIN).
• The mechanisms open to other jurisdictions for the formal acquisition of evidence through Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) requests, and,
• The Gibraltar Financial Intelligence Unit.

Additionally, DS Soane, in conjunction with WaveCrest Holdings Limited a Gibraltar registered company regulated y the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission, presented two case studies on the benefits of Police and Private Sector working together.

This is the fourth edition of the course held by Europol and the second time that DS Soane has been invited to address it.