The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Country Office in Iraq, with funding from the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), is implementing a project titled ‘Strengthening Justice Sector Capacities to Uphold the Rule of Law in Iraq’. The goal of this project is to strengthen the competencies of investigative judges to lead and conduct complex organized crime and financial crime investigations, including money laundering, corruption, and illicit financing and to improve the policies and procedures for investigations and prosecutions of complex organized crime and financial crimes.