On 12 May 2014, at the 23rd Session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) in Vienna, ICAR joined experts from the International Association of Prosecutors and the Korean Institute on Criminology to support a workshop on challenges of international cooperation in criminal matters.

The workshop was organised by the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences. ICAR experts specifically presented on international cooperation challenges affecting the informal and formal processes for recovering and returning stolen assets, including issues related to dual criminality and the relevance of effective communication and coordination between requested states and requesting states and other relevant stakeholders of the asset recovery process.