Countering the use of AI by organised crime groups to the detriment of the financial interests of the European Union - ANCRIM-PCBI

forthcoming

The project is in line with the main objective of the programme and the objectives of the Union Anti-Fraud Programme - financial and technical support and funding for specialised training. The aim of the project is to provide the Police Central Investigation Bureau with analytical tools and to raise the level of competence of analysts in order to combat irregularities, fraud and corruption affecting the financial interests of the EU. The scale of the complexity of criminal operations, the persons and entities involved, the financial flows used to disguise them and the amount of information exceed the perception capacity of those involved in combating these structures, making it impossible to effectively destabilise criminal groups and thus combat organised crime in the EU. Accelerating technological development is forcing the PCBI to use the latest devices whose computing power and user-supporting algorithms will enable rapid feedback, making it possible to search for links and structures. In particular, the increasing number of cash flows, exceeding the perception of a single analyst, causes a number of activities related to the legalisation of criminal funds to go unnoticed, which has an impact on their disclosure, recovery and security. It is crucial to implement software to achieve the above objectives. Along with the implementation of technical solutions, training on them should be conducted for PCBI officers. The result will be the acquisition of tools to combat organised economic crime, while enabling the coordination and exchange of information, which will have a real impact on the financial security of the EU. The project will aim to: - Purchase high-performance laptops equipped with autonomous mathematical user-support algorithms for PCBI analysts and specialized analytical software from i2 that allows creation of databases on the basis of collected information and visualization of connections and identification of criminal structures - train the analysts