Senior prosecutors from Southeast Europe held a virtual meeting on 30th of April 2025 to address the evolving challenges of extradition in the context of increasing transnational threats. The online session brought together representatives from national prosecution offices, judicial institutions, and international partners, highlighting the region’s continued commitment to cross-border cooperation in criminal justice.
SELEC Management welcomed the participants to the first online meeting held in the framework of the Moldovan Chairmanship of SEEPAG, Ms. Diana Rotundu, Prosecutor and Head of International cooperation and European Union integration within the General Prosecution Office, chairing the meeting in her capacity as the SEEPAG Chairperson for the year 2025.
Discussions focused on the legal, procedural, and practical obstacles prosecutors face when handling extradition requests involving complex and cross-jurisdictional criminal activity.
It was concluded that extradition remains a crucial tool ensuring that offenders cannot evade justice by crossing borders. However, modern transnational threats such as cybercrime, terrorism, organized crime, corruption, human trafficking, a/o, require us to adapt and strengthen international cooperation and collaboration among law enforcement, judiciary, academia, private sector and international organizations.
