Three doctoral candidates present research on the EU’s fight against financial crime

On 28 April, doctoral candidates Eirini Botza, Flora Jung, and Nicole Visco Comandini delivered insightful presentations of their doctoral research during an inspiring workshop with Professor Ester Herlin-Karnell from the University of Gothenburg.

Eirini started off by evaluating the establishment of the Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) in 2024 as a potential breakthrough in the EU’s fight against financial crime and explored ways to effectively formulate a set of governing principles acting as constitutional limits and ensuring that the framework as a whole remains complaint with fundamental rights.   

Flora then addressed the connection between anti-money laundering and environmental crimes in the private sector, seeking ways to best balance effective enforcement against environmental crimes using Anti-Money Laundering (AML) systems with the prevention of overcompliance by private-sector actors.   

Finally, Nicole presented her research in EU financial criminal law, focusing on the limitations of traditional conviction-based enforcement against serious and organised crime and analysing how recent EU asset recovery measures impact the presumption of innocence as a core criminal law principle.

Thank you to Professor Herlin-Karnell for her feedback and guidance and to our doctoral candidates for a thought-provoking session!