On 3 October 2025, Dr Tena Prelec (University of Rijeka / CSMK) was honoured to deliver a keynote address at the Second Conference on Forensic Accounting, hosted by the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Belgrade.
Speaking to an audience of academics, practitioners, regulators, and students, Dr Prelec presented her lecture “Transnational Linkages: How Enablers, Corrosive Capital, and Networks Sustain Kleptocracy.” She explored the professionals and financial channels that allow corruption to cross borders, showed examples of corrosive capital in the Western Balkans and Eastern Europe, and highlighted why collaboration between academia, journalists, civil society, and forensic accountants is essential to expose and dismantle kleptocratic networks.
Colleagues in Belgrade have launched the first Master’s programme in forensic accounting in the region. To support this, they translated the book Understanding Corruption: How Corruption Works in Practice (Agenda Publishing, 2022), edited by Robert Barrington and University of Sussex colleagues. Dr Prelec contributed four chapters to this volume, which now serves as a textbook for the new programme.
