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Basel LEARN: free courses on financial investigation, asset tracing, intelligence gathering and more

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Our online learning platform, Basel LEARN, offers a collection of free self-paced eLearning courses. They are developed to help law enforcement, anti-money laundering and compliance professionals gain new skills to fight financial crime.

The interactive modules help you to “learn by doing” – for example, by completing tasks in a simulated investigation. After successfully completing a course, you will be awarded a Certificate of Completion.

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Basel Institute newsletter - April 2025

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The newsletter covers highlights at the Basel Institute in March 2025. It also features our latest news, blogs and other publications.

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Success stories in raising transparency in the natural resource sector

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This is a meeting of the Open Data Working Group of the Countering Environmental Corruption Practitioners Forum.

El desmantelamiento de la ley de recuperación de activos más exitosa de Perú es un paso atrás para el país - y la justicia

Read more about El desmantelamiento de la ley de recuperación de activos más exitosa de Perú es un paso atrás para el país - y la justicia

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A veces parece que el apoyo de alto nivel a la lucha contra la corrupción y la delincuencia se da la vuelta. Es el caso de Perú, país estrechamente asociado al Instituto de Basilea sobre la Gobernanza desde hace más de una década

Dismantling Peru’s most successful asset recovery law is a step backwards for the country – and justice

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Sometimes it seems like high-level support for the fight against corruption and crime is being turned on its head. That includes in Peru, a close partner country of the Basel Institute on Governance for more than a decade.

When You Have Corrupt Friends Abroad: The Impact of Strategic Corruption on Sudan’s Democratic Collapse

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A new peer-reviewed journal article looks into how corruption undermines democracies, with a specific focus on a context of weak governance.

Collective Action Awards 2025: vote now!

Read more about Collective Action Awards 2025: vote now!

Public voting has opened for this year’s prestigious Collective Action Awards.

Launched in 2022, the Collective Action Awards celebrate inspiring and outstanding multi-stakeholder initiatives to raise standards of business integrity in a particular context. As in previous years, there are two award categories: “Outstanding Achievement in Collective Action” and “Collective Action Inspirational Newcomer”.

Tackling crime convergence: The Amazon challenge

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Keeping Europe safe means keeping up with corruption and financial crime threats

Read more about Keeping Europe safe means keeping up with corruption and financial crime threats

Two recent EU publications underscore the central role of corruption and money laundering in enabling organised crime and threatening security – and how essential it is to invest more in efforts to investigate, seize and confiscate criminal assets.

Europol’s 2025 Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment (SOCTA) painted a sobering picture of how organised crime is “evolving at an unprecedented pace”, with corruption and money laundering as key enablers.

High-level Corruption: an Analysis of Schemes, Costs and of Policy Recommendations

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Corruption affects communities worldwide. It undermines civil, political and economic rights, erodes trust in institutions and impedes economic progress. A new Policy Brief by the FALCON (Fight Against Large-scale Corruption and Organised Crime Networks) project unveils new insights in the fight against high-level corruption.

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