Delegation of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland visited the Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia. Deputy Heads of the Investigation Service, Vakhtang Paresishvili and Vaja Panozishvili, and other officials of the Service met with the delegation members. The delegation was led by Stephanie Joyce, Fiscal Crime Liaison Officer of HM Revenue and Customs of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. Meeting was also attended the Regional Director of the International Intelligence and Operations Department at the National Crime Agency ,Graham Hancock and Amanda Hickman, the International Relations Officer at the same department with political secretary of the British Embassy, Sophie Stewart.

At the introductory meeting representatives of the Investigation Service introduced the main directions of the activities of the Service to the British guests and talked about the effective methods of combating organized crime in the field financial – economic crimes. The guests were interested in the investigation of smuggling, forge money, detection-elimination of illegal circulation of drugs and transnational organized crime. The Investigation Service representatives highlighted that the effective and successful work of the investigative authority has a crucial importance for the economic development of the country.

The UK representatives talked about the practical directions of their activities and the importance of coordinated work between the law enforcement agencies in the investigation process.

Effective cooperation between the Georgian and British colleague agencies in the fighting against financial and economic crime was underlined at the meeting. The concrete directions of future collaboration between the British and Georgian colleagues were planned to enhance the activities of the law enforcement agencies of the two countries, to share professional experience and to enhance their cooperation.