[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":229},["ShallowReactive",2],{"training-follow-the-money":3,"training-follow-the-money-others":27},{"id":4,"status":5,"sort":4,"date_created":6,"date_updated":7,"slug":8,"title":9,"subtitle":10,"learning_objective":11,"delivered_by":12,"target_audience":13,"participants":14,"duration":15,"location":16,"language":17,"description":18,"outcomes":19,"testimonials":26},8,"published","2026-05-08T22:30:05.000Z","2026-05-20T21:41:11.000Z","follow-the-money","Follow the money in environmental crime cases","Training programme for government agencies","How to leverage financial investigative techniques to prove environmental crime and associated money laundering offences and initiate asset recovery actions. This course is specifically designed for practitioners handling environmental crime and related cases.","International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) training team","Investigators, prosecutors, environmental government agencies","25–35 on site; up to 20 virtually","5 days","On site or virtually","English; other languages possible with interpreters","This training programme applies a \"follow the money\" approach to the fight against illegal wildlife trade, forest crimes, illegal mining and other environmental crimes. It is delivered jointly by ICAR training experts and experts from the Basel Institute's Green Corruption team.\n\nThe case involves an individual who is allegedly a notorious illegal logging kingpin, who lives a luxurious lifestyle and owns a number of expensive assets. Using the initial information, investigators follow leads to collect evidence, analyse bank records, conduct open-source intelligence investigations, interview witnesses and conduct searches.\n\nTailored instruction, thematic group discussions and mini-workshops equip the participants with the skills and tools to advance the case.",[20,22,24],{"value":21},"Conduct parallel financial investigations while investigating environmental crime cases.",{"value":23},"Apply financial investigative tools and approaches to environmental crime investigations, with the aim of proving commission of not only environmental crimes but also money laundering offences.",{"value":25},"Initiate actions to recover the proceeds of such crimes.",[],[28,49,66,86,103,123,143,159,181,202,220],{"id":29,"status":5,"sort":29,"date_created":6,"date_updated":30,"slug":31,"title":32,"subtitle":10,"learning_objective":33,"delivered_by":12,"target_audience":34,"participants":14,"duration":15,"location":16,"language":17,"description":35,"outcomes":36,"testimonials":45},1,"2026-06-03T14:29:11.000Z","financial-investigations-asset-recovery","Financial investigations and asset recovery","How to use criminal investigative techniques to gather evidence in order to prove different elements of money laundering and corruption offences and initiate an asset recovery action.","Public-sector agencies (investigators, prosecutors, FIU representatives, judges)","Our signature training programme helps participants gain the fundamental criminal investigative techniques to prove different elements of a corruption and money laundering offence and initiate an asset recovery action.\n\nWorking in groups, participants conduct an investigation into the Director of Public Works in the Ministry of Internal Development. Through his position, the suspect enriches himself unduly and channels illegal funds through various local and offshore corporate vehicles. The participants apply investigative techniques like open-source intelligence, surveillance and interviews. They trace and analyse bank statements and accounting records. The participants make use of informal and formal international cooperation measures to secure evidence and recover assets hidden outside their jurisdiction.\n\nTailored instruction and group discussions provide participants with the skills and knowledge to complete the simulated investigation.",[37,39,41,43],{"value":38},"Analyse large volumes of data, gather and assemble evidence ready for presentation at trial and establish a basis for the confiscation of assets.",{"value":40},"Use financial investigative tools to prove illegal\u002Funknown income and conduct financial analysis of bank statements using Excel.",{"value":42},"Use criminal investigative techniques to identify relevant witnesses and evidence.",{"value":44},"Obtain intelligence and evidence from foreign jurisdictions. Initiate an asset recovery action.",[46],{"quote":47,"attribution":48},"The course was excellent and the trainers were incredible in terms of methodology and human interaction. With this knowledge, I hope to contribute to proving that crime does not pay.",null,{"id":50,"status":5,"sort":50,"date_created":6,"date_updated":7,"slug":51,"title":52,"subtitle":10,"learning_objective":53,"delivered_by":12,"target_audience":54,"participants":14,"duration":15,"location":16,"language":17,"description":55,"outcomes":56,"testimonials":63},2,"corruption-infrastructure","Corruption in infrastructure projects and procurement","How to recognise and investigate potential corruption schemes and fraud in public procurement and infrastructure projects.","Investigators, prosecutors, FIU representatives, judges","Public procurement of goods and services creates valuable business opportunities but also exposure to bribery risks. Infrastructure and construction projects are particularly prone to corruption. This training programme covers how to recognise and investigate potential corruption schemes and fraud in public procurement and infrastructure projects.\n\nParticipants work in groups to investigate a simulated case of procurement corruption. The case focuses on a large road construction project. The Deputy Director of Procurement in the country's Road Construction Agency receives bribes to steer the contracts to a favoured contractor. The bidding companies engage in collusive bidding to drive up contract prices.\n\nParticipants identify red flags for schemes like bid rigging, collusive bidding, fraud, bribes and kickbacks. They gather evidence to prove these and the commission of corruption and money laundering offences.\n\nDuring lectures and group workshops, participants also examine actual cases to demonstrate how procurement tenders can be rigged, how bribes are generated, concealed and paid, and how these payments can be detected and proven.",[57,59,61],{"value":58},"Understand and detect common types of corruption in contracting and procurement, including bribery, collusion, bid rigging, kickbacks and undisclosed financial interests in the award of contracts.",{"value":60},"Uncover evidence of corruption in such schemes.",{"value":62},"Identify the relevant criminal statutes and organise cases to ensure that each element of the crime is proven.",[64],{"quote":65,"attribution":48},"The training programme not only built knowledge among investigators but also made our investigation approach more efficient.",{"id":67,"status":5,"sort":67,"date_created":6,"date_updated":7,"slug":68,"title":69,"subtitle":10,"learning_objective":70,"delivered_by":12,"target_audience":34,"participants":14,"duration":15,"location":16,"language":17,"description":71,"outcomes":72,"testimonials":81},3,"offshore-mla","Offshore structures and mutual legal assistance","How to navigate the world of offshore banking\u002Flegal structures in order to understand how corporate structures can be misused to conceal beneficial ownership. This course also covers how to make a successful request for Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA).","Criminals frequently misuse offshore banking facilities and legal entities to hide their profits and distance themselves from the beneficial ownership of criminal assets. This programme covers techniques used to hide proceeds using offshore structures and how to gain evidence from overseas jurisdictions through mutual legal assistance (MLA).\n\nParticipants work in groups to investigate a complex simulated asset tracing investigation involving the layering of offshore structures. This course has two separate simulated cases. In the first case, the Director of Procurement for the Ministry of Internal Development launders proceeds of international bribery through a bank account and acquires assets in a foreign jurisdiction. Participants use informal and formal means of international cooperation to secure evidence and recover assets. At the end of the case, the participants must draft a formal MLA request.\n\nIn the second case, the Deputy Director of Procurement in the country's Infrastructure Agency sets up various corporate structures in offshore and tax haven jurisdictions. During the investigation, the participants are exposed to the features of structures like trusts and offshore companies, including the role of corporate service providers, nominee directors and registered agents. Participants use their laws to secure evidence and recover assets hidden outside their jurisdiction.\n\nLectures, a workshop on successful MLA requests and an interactive analysis of MLA best practice provide participants with the skills and knowledge to complete the investigation.",[73,75,77,79],{"value":74},"Investigate complex legal structures used by criminals to hide illegal proceeds, such as trusts, offshore companies and offshore banks.",{"value":76},"Unravel the beneficial ownership of trusts and corporate entities.",{"value":78},"Follow leads to gather various types of evidence.",{"value":80},"Prepare a request for MLA.",[82,84],{"quote":83,"attribution":48},"Material on offshore companies and commercial transactions will allow better progress on certain cases in day-to-day work.",{"quote":85,"attribution":48},"Eye-opening and highly instructive on creative ways to track money laundering offences in other jurisdictions.",{"id":87,"status":5,"sort":87,"date_created":6,"date_updated":7,"slug":88,"title":89,"subtitle":10,"learning_objective":90,"delivered_by":12,"target_audience":34,"participants":14,"duration":91,"location":16,"language":17,"description":92,"outcomes":93,"testimonials":102},4,"crypto-money-laundering","Money laundering using crypto assets","How to detect, investigate and counter criminal use of cryptocurrencies and other virtual assets to launder the proceeds of crime, and trace and recover such assets.","3 days on site; 4 days virtually","In recent years, financial payments have experienced an unprecedented wave of technological innovations with the development of new electronic payment methods. Cryptocurrencies and other virtual assets have the potential to make it easier for criminals to hide the source of their proceeds and move their funds across borders without detection.\n\nThis course covers how to detect, investigate and counter criminal use of crypto assets to launder the proceeds of crime, and how to trace and recover crypto assets.\n\nParticipants work in groups to investigate a simulated corruption and money laundering case in which the cryptocurrency Bitcoin is used as a payment method.\n\nThe case involves the Chief of Procurement at the Ministry of Public Health who uses Bitcoin as a means to launder the proceeds of corruption. Participants unravel an intricate scheme, follow the money trail across various jurisdictions. They analyse the Bitcoin blockchain with a view to securing evidence and tracing forfeitable virtual and physical assets.\n\nLectures help participants to transfer their fundamental financial investigations skills to the world of crypto assets.",[94,96,98,100],{"value":95},"Understand the technology behind crypto assets and the legislation in place to regulate their use.",{"value":97},"Recognise how criminals may use crypto assets to launder the proceeds of crime.",{"value":99},"Trace Bitcoin transactions with the use of publicly available online tools.",{"value":101},"Manage challenges associated with the seizure and confiscation of crypto assets.",[],{"id":104,"status":5,"sort":104,"date_created":6,"date_updated":7,"slug":105,"title":106,"subtitle":10,"learning_objective":107,"delivered_by":12,"target_audience":108,"participants":109,"duration":15,"location":110,"language":111,"description":112,"outcomes":113,"testimonials":122},5,"interviewing-skills","Interviewing skills for financial investigators","How to plan and conduct interviews to obtain more detailed and accurate financial information from suspects, witnesses and victims.","Investigators","Up to 12","On site only","English","Critical to any investigation is the ability to obtain credible and accurate information from relevant individuals. This course covers how to plan and conduct interviews to obtain more detailed and accurate financial information from suspects, witnesses and victims.\n\nThe case highlights schemes used by the Director of the Rural Health Medical Programme to obtain undue advantages, including bribes and kickbacks.\n\nParticipants conduct a series of interviews with, among others, a whistleblower, a losing bidder, an accountant, a hostile witness and the suspect. The aim of the interviews is to gather evidence, with a specific focus on key financial information to unveil more details of the illicit activities.\n\nLectures and extensive practical interviewing exercises help participants to gain experience in using the above-mentioned techniques.",[114,116,118,120],{"value":115},"Use techniques from methodologies such as PEACE (Preparation and Planning; Engage and Explain; Account; Closure; Evaluate) or Cognitive Interview Method.",{"value":117},"Apply Conversation Management technique for suspects or unwilling interviewees.",{"value":119},"Develop interview outlines using case documents (diary entries, social media, phone records, notes, financial records).",{"value":121},"Create event timelines, verify document authenticity, and trace financial details.",[],{"id":124,"status":5,"sort":124,"date_created":6,"date_updated":7,"slug":125,"title":126,"subtitle":10,"learning_objective":127,"delivered_by":12,"target_audience":34,"participants":14,"duration":15,"location":16,"language":17,"description":128,"outcomes":129,"testimonials":140},6,"non-conviction-forfeiture","Non-conviction based forfeiture","How to use judicial procedures to forfeit or confiscate criminal assets without the need for a specific criminal conviction.","Non-conviction based forfeiture laws are increasingly recognised as a powerful way to recover illicit assets when traditional criminal confiscation is not possible – helping to ensure that \"crime doesn't pay\". Laws vary per country, but typically allow the use of judicial procedures to forfeit or confiscate criminal assets without the need for a specific criminal conviction.\n\nParticipants conduct a country-specific simulated investigation in multidisciplinary teams, in which they identify, seize and forfeit assets without obtaining a criminal conviction.\n\nThe case involves the Director of Procurement in the Ministry of Education, who seems to live a fancy lifestyle and own luxurious assets directly or through complex legal arrangements. He uses a maze of financial transactions to disguise the source, location and ownership of the proceeds of his suspected corruption.\n\nParticipants working in groups identify and follow leads and gather over 50 pieces of documentary evidence. They analyse bank account data, cryptocurrency transactions and mobile money records, as well as hear key witnesses in order to identify assets and develop the evidence. They then employ their country's relevant non-conviction based forfeiture legislation strategically to recover the illicit assets from the suspect.\n\nTailored instruction and group discussions provide participants with the skills and knowledge to identify the strategies and techniques needed to approach the case.",[130,132,134,136,138],{"value":131},"Differentiate between conviction- and non-conviction based objectives and procedures.",{"value":133},"Navigate the key principles of the relevant non-conviction based forfeiture legislation, including evidentiary requirements.",{"value":135},"Use appropriate tools to investigate, preserve and forfeit assets.",{"value":137},"Navigate differences in legal provisions and approaches.",{"value":139},"Cooperate across international borders in non-conviction based forfeiture cases.",[141],{"quote":142,"attribution":48},"I'm now more confident about the process of forfeiting assets through the civil route, which is also a deterrent to economic crime.",{"id":144,"status":5,"sort":144,"date_created":6,"date_updated":7,"slug":145,"title":146,"subtitle":10,"learning_objective":147,"delivered_by":12,"target_audience":34,"participants":14,"duration":15,"location":16,"language":17,"description":148,"outcomes":149,"testimonials":158},7,"illicit-enrichment","Illicit enrichment training for agencies","Understanding the legal concept of illicit enrichment and applying specific tools and techniques to investigate and prosecute the offence successfully.","The novel training programme on illicit enrichment focuses on this widely adopted but still misunderstood and underutilised anti-corruption offence. The programme is designed to help participants understand the legal concept of illicit enrichment\u002Funjustified wealth and apply specific financial investigative tools and techniques to investigate the offence successfully.\n\nIn recent years, more countries have incorporated the offence of illicit enrichment – also known as unexplained wealth – into their anti-corruption legislation. This is often a response to instances where public officials have unlawfully enriched themselves over a period of time or have accumulated wealth that cannot be justified by reference to their known legal income.\n\nConnecting unexplained wealth to a specific criminal offence is often challenging and sometimes impossible. The Illicit Enrichment training programme equips participants with the knowledge and skills to investigate the offence and prove illegal \u002F unjustified income using various methods, including Source and Application of Funds Analysis and Net Worth Analysis.",[150,152,154,156],{"value":151},"Identify the elements of the offence of illicit enrichment and understand the intricacies of this legal concept.",{"value":153},"Make use of financial investigative methods such as the Source and Application of Funds Analysis or Net Worth Analysis to calculate the amount of unexplained wealth.",{"value":155},"Make use of criminal investigative techniques such as open-source intelligence, surveillance and mutual legal assistance to trace assets.",{"value":157},"Manage legal challenges often associated with this specific offence.",[],{"id":160,"status":5,"sort":160,"date_created":6,"date_updated":7,"slug":161,"title":162,"subtitle":163,"learning_objective":164,"delivered_by":12,"target_audience":165,"participants":14,"duration":166,"location":16,"language":167,"description":168,"outcomes":169,"testimonials":180},9,"asset-recovery-civil-society","Asset recovery training for civil society and journalists","Training programme for non-state actors","How to follow financial leads, analyse financial information and understand asset recovery processes in order to support investigative reporting, monitoring and advocacy.","Members of civil society organisations and investigative journalists, plus other professionals with a relevant interest in asset recovery","Three days","English; French possible for group bookings","Civil society organisations, investigative journalists and other professionals outside government play an increasingly critical role in exposing financial misconduct, monitoring the use of public resources and supporting accountability efforts.\n\nAsset recovery is a key part of that effort. It is not only about exposing wrongdoing, but about ensuring that stolen public funds are traced, returned and used for their intended purpose.\n\nFor civil society, investigative journalists and other non-state actors, understanding asset recovery strengthens their ability to follow cases, ask the right questions and push for tangible outcomes.\n\nThis course equips participants with the knowledge and tools to identify and analyse potential illicit financial activity, and to understand the asset recovery process from start to finish. This includes detection and intelligence gathering, investigation, judicial proceedings, confiscation and asset management, as well as the challenges that arise at each stage.\n\nBy the end of the course, participants will be better prepared to contribute to asset recovery efforts as informed and effective non-state actors. They will be able to conduct advocacy, monitoring and investigative reporting, and engage more confidently in detection efforts and whistleblowing processes.\n\n**The case**\n\nParticipants work in groups on a simulated corruption case involving a senior public official in the health sector. The suspect has embezzled public funds intended for the construction of a hospital and used them to acquire assets both domestically and abroad.\n\nWorking through the case, participants analyse financial information and leads provided by a whistleblower. They use open-source intelligence (OSINT) tools to identify and trace assets, and explore how information and evidence can be obtained across borders through both informal channels and formal mutual legal assistance (MLA) processes.\n\nLectures and guided discussions equip participants with the skills and knowledge to complete the simulated investigation.",[170,172,174,176,178],{"value":171},"Identify and trace illicit assets using open-source intelligence (OSINT).",{"value":173},"Analyse financial and corporate information.",{"value":175},"Understand how financial investigations and asset recovery are conducted in practice.",{"value":177},"Recognise the challenges faced by law enforcement in pursuing financial crime.",{"value":179},"Understand their role as non-state actors in supporting asset recovery efforts.",[],{"id":182,"status":5,"sort":182,"date_created":6,"date_updated":7,"slug":183,"title":184,"subtitle":10,"learning_objective":185,"delivered_by":12,"target_audience":186,"participants":14,"duration":15,"location":16,"language":17,"description":187,"outcomes":188,"testimonials":199},10,"advanced-operational-analysis","Advanced operational analysis","How to conduct complex operational analysis, from receipt of a suspicious transaction activity or report to dissemination of the analysis to law enforcement authorities.","FIU representatives, investigators and prosecutors","Operational analysis is a core function of a country's financial intelligence unit (FIU) and an important element of money laundering investigations. This training programme combines an eLearning course on Operational Analysis with a customised on-site training component.\n\nParticipants work in groups to conduct an operational analysis in support of a simulated money laundering case. The case involves the Minister of Works and Transport, who is rumoured to live a lavish lifestyle funded by bribe payments related to infrastructure contracts awarded by the Ministry. To confirm the hypothesis that he received bribes and laundered the proceeds through the acquisition of luxurious assets, the participants make use of the intelligence cycle. They:\n\n- search databases;\n- collect information from open sources, domestic and international closed sources;\n- analyse large volumes of financial data; and\n- cooperate with local and international authorities to add value to the original suspicious transaction report.\n\nIn this way, they transform the information collected into actionable intelligence that could lead to a successful investigation, prosecution and asset recovery action. Completion of an interactive eLearning course and relevant discussions and instruction blocks give participants the skills to conduct the analysis.",[189,191,193,195,197],{"value":190},"Develop the knowledge and skills to analyse suspicious transaction reports.",{"value":192},"Collate additional information to add value to the initial suspicious transaction report.",{"value":194},"Conduct a structured analysis of disclosures based on the steps of the intelligence cycle.",{"value":196},"Produce written and oral assessments for dissemination to relevant law enforcement agencies.",{"value":198},"Establish effective mechanisms and structures for inter-agency cooperation and information exchange.",[200],{"quote":201,"attribution":48},"I learned about the analysis of bank statements as well as on the operations of FIUs, how to come up with excellent dissemination reports, and how to engage foreign jurisdictions for assistance.",{"id":203,"status":5,"sort":203,"date_created":6,"date_updated":7,"slug":204,"title":205,"subtitle":10,"learning_objective":206,"delivered_by":12,"target_audience":34,"participants":207,"duration":208,"location":110,"language":17,"description":209,"outcomes":210,"testimonials":219},11,"train-the-trainer","Train-the-Trainer (TTT)","A series of four training workshops designed to develop 4–5 candidates as Certified Trainers in the Financial Investigations and Asset Recovery programme.","25–35 per workshop, totalling around 125; four or five candidates become Certified ICAR Trainers","5 days per workshop; totalling 20 days plus 6 additional mentoring days for the selected trainers only","The Train-the-Trainer (TTT) programme comprises a series of five training workshops on Financial Investigations and Asset Recovery. It is designed to develop four to five candidates as Certified ICAR Trainers for this programme while simultaneously training up to 125 \"regular\" participants over the five sessions.\n\n**Workshop 1:** Future certified trainers selected from among the participants.\n\n**Workshop 2:** Future trainers observe the delivery of the workshop with a new group of participants, followed by three days of instruction on content and the ICAR methodology.\n\n**Workshop 3:** Future trainers deliver two lectures and facilitate the practical exercise, assisted by the ICAR trainers. This is followed by a two-day mentoring programme covering technical issues, programme management and suggestions for improvement.\n\n**Workshop 4:** Future trainers deliver all lecture modules, facilitate the practical exercise and manage classroom activities, with the assistance of a senior ICAR trainer. This is followed by one day of mentoring.\n\n**Workshop 5:** Future trainers prepare, organise and deliver the entire workshop, including management of the training platform, lectures, the practical exercise and class management, under the observation and supervision of a senior ICAR trainer. Upon successful completion, they are certified as trainers for the Financial Investigations and Asset Recovery training programme.\n\nParticipants who wish to become certified trainers must express their interest and ensure that their agencies make a commitment to allowing them to attend all five workshops.",[211,213,215,217],{"value":212},"Independently deliver lecture modules, facilitate the practical exercise and manage the classroom activities.",{"value":214},"Command a high-level technical understanding of financial investigations and asset recovery.",{"value":216},"Present in the classroom with ease and skill.",{"value":218},"Employ the unique ICAR training methodology.",[],{"id":221,"status":5,"sort":221,"date_created":6,"date_updated":7,"slug":222,"title":223,"subtitle":10,"learning_objective":224,"delivered_by":12,"target_audience":225,"participants":14,"duration":15,"location":16,"language":17,"description":226,"outcomes":227,"testimonials":228},12,"regional-training","Regional training for agencies","Enhancing the technical skills and cross-border cooperation of regional authorities to better handle concrete money laundering and corruption cases.","Investigators, prosecutors, FIU representatives from countries in the region","The organised and transnational nature of corruption and money laundering requires coordinated efforts between countries. This collaboration is even more critical amongst countries sharing common borders and regular socio-political and economic interaction.\n\nRegional training may be coordinated by a regional asset recovery or anti-money laundering network. In these cases, it is often part of efforts to facilitate collaboration and relationship building between different members of the network.\n\nWe recommend our Financial Investigations and Asset Recovery training programme for regional training as it is well suited for the format.\n\nHowever, most of our modules can be delivered in a regional format, involving practitioners from various countries with a focus on enhancing regional capacity and promoting networking and cooperation across borders.",[],[],1780676692570]