no longer live at the edges of law-enforcement work. Money-laundering typologies now routinely cross on-chain rails; ransomware, sanctions evasion, and organised financial crime leave traces on public ledgers that only a properly trained investigator can read, contextualise, and turn into court-usable evidence.
Romania is not an exception to this shift, and the country’s investigators, prosecutors, and supervisory analysts increasingly face cases in which the decisive facts sit on a blockchain.
Each edition combines guided on-chain tracing exercises
with case simulations drawn from real typologies — organised crime, money laundering, tax evasion, cyberattacks, and sanctions violations — and includes dedicated time on the pitfalls of misinterpretation and the vulnerabilities most likely to be tested during litigation.
Following the Bucharest launch, the programme will continue with regional editions across five principal cities: Cluj-Napoca, Iași, Brașov, Timișoara, and Craiova.
These editions are scheduled through 2027 and 2028 and are designed to bring the training within reach of institutions based outside the capital, where investigators face the same operational challenges but have historically had less access to specialised professional development.
Each regional edition will incorporate recommendations gathered from participants at the preceding editions. Feedback from the Bucharest launch has already pointed to two consistent priorities that will shape the next rounds: more time devoted to hands-on on-chain analysis, and a broader set of practical case exercises grounded in operational scenarios.
BIPA’s decision to enter this partnership is grounded in IKNAIO’s demonstrated support for the development of open, interoperable standards in blockchain intelligence. That commitment aligns directly with BIPA’s own institutional mission of preserving public authorities’ analytical independence and their control over the data and methodology on which they rely.
You can become a member of the Blockchain Intelligence Forum if you are a certified blockchain intelligence practitioner in a front-line organisation or company, within the European Union.