On 19-21 June 2024 in Tashkent (Uzbekistan), UNODC together with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States Department of Justice (USDOJ) jointly organized a multi-stakeholder sub-regional workshop for representatives from government authorities of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan involved in addressing substandard and falsified medical products and related crimes. [Read more]
On 4-6 June 2024 in Vienna (Austria), the UNODC Global Programme on Criminal Network Disruption (GPCD) through the Judicial Cooperation Network for Central Asia and Southern Caucasus (CASC), together with the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust), co-organized a workshop to strengthen skills of practitioners from Central Asia on Joint Investigation Teams (JITs), one of the most advanced tools used in international cooperation in criminal matters. [Read more]
On 2-3 May 2024, the plenary meeting celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Judicial Cooperation Network for Central Asia and Southern Caucasus (CASC) was held in Astana in collaboration with the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The meeting served as a platform for dialogue for criminal justice practitioners between members of the Network and partners outside the CASC region to reflect on achievements made in the past 10 years ... [Read more]
From 16 to 19 April, UNODC, in collaboration with the Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination Centre for Combating Illicit Trafficking of Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and their Precursors (CARICC) and experts from the Judicial Cooperation Network for Central Asia and Southern Caucasus (the CASC Network), held a regional training on investigation of cybercrime cases in Central Asia for prosecutors from Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. [Read more]
On 1-2 June 2022, the plenary meeting of the Judicial Cooperation Network for Central Asia and Southern Caucasus (CASC) was held in Tashkent in collaboration with the Prosecutor General’s Office of Uzbekistan. The meeting served as a discussion platform for criminal justice practitioners and facilitated dialogue between [Read more]
The Judicial Cooperation Network for Central Asia and Southern Caucasus (CASC) held an online joint meeting with Eurojust on 31 March 2022. The meeting was aimed to discuss ways to strengthen judicial cooperation among the members of the networks. [Read more]
From 17 to 18 March 2022, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) through the Judicial Cooperation Network for Central Asia and Southern Caucasus (CASC) and the HTMSS Global Programme on Trafficking in Persons in cooperation with the Prosecutor General’s Office of Georgia convened the regional workshop to enhance the response to trafficking in persons for sexual exploitation in Central Asia and Southern Caucasus. [Read more]
On 14 March 2022 in the margins of the 65th UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), the Judicial Cooperation Network for Central Asia and Southern Caucasus (CASC) jointly with the Prosecutor’s General Office of Uzbekistan conducted a meeting with representatives of the Prosecutor General’s Offices (PGO) of Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, the European Judicial Network and the West African Network of Central Authorities and Prosecutors (WACAP). [Read more]
A meeting of delegations from the General Prosecutor's Offices of Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia has been conducted in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from 8 to 12 August 2021. CASC network provided assistance with the organization of this meeting with a view to furthering the bilateral cooperation between both countries. [Read more]
Video statement delivered by Mr. Asylbek Akmatov, Head of the International Department of the Prosecutor's General Office of the Kyrgyz Republic, in the margins of the UN Congress on Criminal Justice and Crime Prevention in Kyoto, 2021
The Judicial Cooperation Network for Central Asia and Southern Caucasus (CASC) held a regional workshop on “Mutual Legal Assistance in Obtaining Electronic Evidence and Cybercrime Cross-Border Investigations” for law enforcement officials of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan from 5 to 6 March 2020 at the Academy of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan. [Read more]
On 7 and 8 November 2019, a training workshop on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters was organized by the UN Regional Office for Central Asia in collaboration with the Judicial Cooperation Network for Central Asia and Southern Caucasus (CASC) and the Academy of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Uzbekistan. [Read more]
