A partnership and cost-sharing agreement was concluded in May 2015 between the ICAR, and the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan (PCUz) and the Swiss Co-operation Office under the Swiss Embassy in the country with regard to the PCUz’s project entitled "Support to combating and preventing corruption in Uzbekistan". Experts from the ICAR delivered a training workshop in Uzbekistan during September 2015 after first conducting an initial on-site scoping mission to engage with relevant authorities and to collect facts and figures for developing a relevant training programme.

The training focused on asset recovery and mutual legal assistance (MLA), and aimed at enhancing the capacity of Uzbekistan’s relevant anti-corruption stakeholders in analysing, investigating and prosecuting corruption and international money laundering cases. It emphasised the importance of asset recovery with a view to increasing the professionalism of the authorities in handling international requests for MLA. This would, in turn, enable them to co-operate efficiently with foreign jurisdictions in fighting money laundering and repatriating stolen assets.

The 4-day training workshop entitled “Financial Investigations and Asset Recovery” commenced in Tashkent on 19 September 2015. The workshop was attended by 25 participants, comprising prosecutors, prosecutors and investigators from the General Prosecutor’s Office, including the Uzbek Financial Intelligence Unit and International Co-operation Department, and investigators from the Ministry of Interior, National Security Service and Customs Department.