Thesis title: International cooperation in money laundering prevention and combat of the People’s Police Force.

Major: Criminology and Crime prevention        Code:  62.38.01.05

Name of PhD student: Bui Bao Trung  Course: 21st

Scientific title, degree and full name of the supervisors: 
1. Prof. Dr Nguyen Ngoc Anh
2. Assoc. Prof. Dr  Tran Quang Huyen

Name of training institution: The People’s Police Academy - The Ministry of Public Security

New contributions of the thesis:

1. The thesis is the first research to systematically and comprehensively study the international cooperation in money laundering prevention and combat of the People’s Police Force.

2. The thesis has summarized and analyzed to clarify the overall situation of research on international cooperation in the money laundering prevention and combat relating to the thesis and indicated the achievements, limitations of the researches. On that basis, the PhD student has identified issues that need to be further studied and clarified in the thesis. 

3. The thesis has built the concept of international cooperation in money laundering prevention and combat of the People’s Police Force, showed the characteristics of international cooperation in money laundering the prevention and combat between this force and foreign functional agencies as well as international organizations.

4. The thesis has studied and analyzed the principles, content, forms, legal basis and process of international cooperation and pointed out the differences in basic characteristics of this activity of the People's Police Force from other international cooperation activities.

5. The thesis has surveyed and assessed the situation of domestic and international money laundering; clarified the nature and extent of danger of this crime; illustrated the characteristics of money laundering in Vietnam. In addition, the author has surveyed the status of international cooperation in money laundering prevention and combat of the People's Police Force and pointed out the advantages, shortcomings, limitations as well as its causes.

6. The thesis has made predictions, analyzed the advantages and disadvantages. The author has proposed scientific, systematic and practical solutions to improve the effectiveness of international cooperation in money laundering prevention and combat of the People’s Police Force in the coming time.