The objective of the Expert group meeting on illicit financial flows from trafficking of human beings and smuggling of migrants, with a focus on the Eastern Europe is to raise awareness on both crimes and corresponding investigative techniques, as well as to identify a number of  effective methods and practices for disrupting the illicit financial flows from TiP/SoM, which can be further developed by UNODC and  tested, particularly in the Eastern Europe.

      The meeting brings together practitioners from the TiP/SoM and AML and financial investigations units from the source, transit and destination countries, with a focus on the Eastern Europe. Participants are expected to discuss possible good practices and national, as well as cross-border, experiences (e.g. training course on illicit financial flows from TiP/SoM, business modelling of criminal organizations, exchange of information between TiP/SoM and AML units, providing 'red flags' and indicators to financial institutions etc., which can serve for UNODC to develop and test its existing tool and to establish informal networks.