Technical assistance and domestic efforts for asset recovery (CoSP11 special event)
This session focused on technical assistance and domestic efforts to enhance international cooperation in transnational corruption and money laundering cases.
It included a case study from Kenya which benefited from support by the International Anti-Corruption Coordination Centre, demonstrating how early informal cooperation, technical assistance and parallel criminal and civil proceedings can generate valuable cross-border intelligence and enable effective asset recovery.
The second part focused on domestic efforts to boost international cooperation under UNCAC, with examples from India and the UAE showing how strong legal frameworks, inter-agency coordination and technology-enabled direct communication between central authorities can significantly reduce delays in mutual legal assistance.
In sum, the panel demonstrated how national governments can improve asset recovery outcomes by adequately resourcing authorities, strengthening domestic coordination, enabling trusted agency-to-agency communication, fully implementing UNCAC – including non-conviction-based confiscation – and executing confiscation orders swiftly before assets dissipate.
This special event takes place in hybrid format at the 11th Conference of the States Parties to the UN Convention Against Corruption in Doha, Qatar. It is co-organised by the Basel Institute on Governance, India, International Anti-Corruption Coordination Centre (IACCC) and the Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative.
Speakers
- Iker Lekuona, Director, International Centre for Asset Recovery, Basel Institute on Governance (moderator)
- Abdi Ahmed Mohamud, Chief Executive, Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, Kenya
- H.E. Judge Al Blooshi, Head of the Central Authority, Ministry of Justice, UAE
- Rachna Chhokar, Deputy Director, Directorate of Enforcement, Government of India
- Michael Petkov, Deputy Head, International Anti-Corruption Coordination Centre
Background reading
- International cooperation in the Migori County corruption case (Case Study by the Basel Institute on Governance, Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission Kenya and International Anti-Corruption Coordination Centre).
- Colombia–Guernsey cooperation leads to successful non-conviction based forfeiture of illicit assets (November 2024)
