The Europol financial crime information centre : FCIC.
Date: 2007-12-12
Institutions: Europol
Subjects: Europol, Internet site, access to information, crime, dissemination of information, economic offence

Website Content

The  FCIC  website  also  includes  the  follow-
ing;

•  A newsletter

•  A user forum

•  A library

•  A web mail function

•  A search function

Application

Application forms for access to the Europol 
FCIC  website  are  available  on  request  by 
contacting  The  Europol  SC4  Financial  and 
Property  Crime  Unit.  Access  is  available  to 
Law  Enforcement  officers  with  an  interest 
in  financial  crime  matters,  including  police, 
customs, immigration and tax authorities as 
well as the judiciary.

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Contacts

Europol – SC4 Financial and 
Property Crime Unit

Financial Crime 
Information Centre

Tel: (31-70) 353 13 66 
Fax: (31-70) 318 08 36

E-mail: SC4@europol.europa.eu

Serious Crime Department

Financial and Property Crime Unit 
SC4

The Europol 
Financial Crime 
Information Centre
FCIC

©  Europol, 2007

https://eracles.europol.europa.eu/ 
eraclesv4/financialcrime

Introduction

  The  purpose  of  the  FCIC  website  is  to  pro-
vide an up to date overview on developments 
in  the  field  of  financial  crime,  for  the  law 
enforcement community and the judiciary. 

The objective is to offer practitioners a tool for 
obtaining  non-operational  information  relat-
ing to financial crime and money laundering, 
which could be of benefit for their daily work 
by  collating  this  information  and  making  it 
available at one location.

The  need  for  a  website  was  highlighted  at 
international  meetings  and  seminars  involv-
ing  financial  crime  experts  who  requested  a 
central information point at EU level, to which 
they  could  address  specific  technical  ques-
tions related to financial crime.

FCIC development

The  Europol  Financial  Crime 
Information 
Centre  (FCIC)  website  was  launched  in  2004.  
Since then, more than 1.000 law enforcement 
and  judicial  experts  on  financial  crime  from 

over 30 countries and jurisdictional areas have 
applied  for  access,  highlighting  the  need  for 
this support tool.

Access to the FCIC is available to Law Enforce-
ment officers with an interest in financial crime 
matters,  including  police,  customs,  immigra-
tion  and  tax  authorities  as  well  as  the  judici-
ary.

Information  displayed  on  the  FCIC  relates  to 
the following areas:

•  Money Laundering

•  Asset Tracing and Confiscation

•  Terrorist Financing

•  Fraud

• 

Intellectual Property Rights Infringement

Concept

The  website  is  a  closed  user  group  concept, 
available via the internet.

A  password  and  user  name,  allocated  by 
Europol,  is  required  to  access  the  secured 
website.

Only technical, non operational, non personal 
data is displayed on the website.

Information

The  information  displayed  on  the  website 
is  general  information,  specific  to  and  use-
ful  for  financial  investigators,  law  enforce-
ment  officers  and  judicial  experts  engaged 
in  combating  financial  crime  including  the 
confiscation  of  criminal  proceeds.  All  the 
information displayed is in English, however 
it is also displayed in other languages when 
available.  You  can  find  the  following  types 
of information in the FCIC:

• 

• 

 National legislation  and procedures

International legislation (e.g. EU/CoE/ UN)

•  Policy , strategy and best practice

•  News

•  Events

•  Links to useful sites

•  Bibliography

Methodology

Open source information relating to financial 
crime is selected on a daily basis and links to 
important  source  locations  are  created  and 
updated.