Uzbekistan’s Police Join Crypto Training Hosted by OSCE

Uzbekistan’s police acquire qualifications in analyzing cryptocurrencies, Dark Web, and blockchain. 

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the world’s largest regional security-oriented intergovernmental organization with observer status at the United Nations, has organized five-day crypto and Dark Web investigation training course for Uzbekistan’s police.

According to the press release shared on October 21st, the training focused on “main concepts and key trends in the areas of internetworking, anonymity and encryption, cryptocurrencies, obfuscation techniques, Dark Web, and Tor networks.”

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The OSCE introduced Uzbekistan’s police with ways to seize cryptocurrencies, analyze blockchain and search on the Dark Web. It is worth noting that the course was designed by the European Cybercrime Training and Education Group (ECTEG).

Moreover, the initiative to organize such police training courses was proposed by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department with the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan and the Academy of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

When talking about the training course Head of the Academy, Evgeniy Kolenko, noted:

Digital technologies have been transforming criminal landscape and educating law enforcement in this area requires a long-term and systematic approach. Our Academy aspires to become the leading institution on cybercrime education for the criminal justice actors in Uzbekistan.

The course was the first national training in Uzbekistan presented within the second phase of the “Capacity Building on Combating Cybercrime in Central Asia” project, funded by the United States, Germany, and the Republic of Korea.

Before the training course began, OSCE gifted General Prosecutor’s Academy a new computer classroom. Talking about the computer class, the Head of the Academy’s Department for Implementation of Information and Communication Technologies and Information Security, Gayrat Musaev, noted:

Cybercrime education requires adequate equipment – both hardware and software – and up-to-date methodological materials for lecturers. The new Dark Web Lab that we inaugurated today provides an excellent technical basis for our future training.

It is worth noting that training activities for law enforcement are expected to continue throughout 2022 and 2023.

It is not the first time OSCE organized a training course for law enforcement in Central Asian countries. In 2020, OSCE hosted a training course for police officers from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Mongolia.

In other news, back in August, the National Agency of Perspective Projects of the Republic of Uzbekistan (NAPP) blocked users from accessing unlicensed crypto exchanges and their services.

by Gile K. – Crypto Analyst, BitDegree