In early August the Basel Institute participated in the 12th Global Programme on Anti-Corruption, Financial Crimes and Asset Recovery in Botswana, which was coordinated by Interpol's Anti-Corruption and Financial Crimes Unit in partnership with the African Development Bank and the Commonwealth Anti-Corruption Centre.
Pursuant to an agreement signed in August 2014 between the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine (GPO) and the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR), the ICAR conducted its second 5-day training workshop entitled “Financial Investigations and Asset Recovery”. The workshop was held at the National Academy of Prosecutors of Ukraine in Kyiv during the period 27 – 31 July 2015 in Kyiv, Ukraine. The first workshop took place in January 2015.
The Basel Institute on Governance, together with its partners, the United Nations Global Compact and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Developement (OECD), has been awarded a three-year funding of nearly USD 4 million under the second funding round of the Siemens Integrity Initiative.
The funding will support the continuous development of the B20 Collective Action Hub as well as the High Level Reporting Mechanism in G20 countries in a project entitled "Scaling up anti-corruption Collective Action: B20 Hub on Anti-Corruption Collective Action."
From 13 to 16 July 2015, the United Nations Office on Drugs on Crime (UNODC), the Asset Recovery Inter-Agency Network of South Africa (ARINSA), the Government of the Republic of Namibia, the Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG) and the International Center of Asset Recovery (ICAR) conducted a workshop for senior judges and magistrates from Eastern and Southern Africa on proceeds of crime and money laundering in Swakopmund, Namibia.
At the request of the Kuwait Anti-Corruption Authority (KANCOR), experts from the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) conducted a series of two back-to-back 5-day training workshops in Kuwait City during mid-May 2015; first, a 5-day training workshop entitled “Financial Investigations and Asset Recovery” to enhance local capacity to investigate and prosecute complex (including international) corruption and money laundering cases and recover stolen assets.
The publication "Strengthening Health System Accountability: a WHO European Region Multi-Country Study" is the output of the latest collaborative project between the Basel Institute on Governance and the World Health Organisation Regional Office for Europe.
Earlier today the Government of Panama jointly with the Basel Institute on Governance announced the establishment of the country’s first High Level Reporting Mechanism (HLRM).
On 17 March 2016, the Basel Institute’s Head of Public Governance (Research) Division, Dr. Claudia Baez-Camargo, presented her paper ‘Where does informality stop and corruption begin?
Experts from ICAR delivered two back-to-back 5-day country specific training programmes in financial investigations and asset recovery in New Delhi, India, from 29 February to 11 March 2016. These workshops were conducted as part of a technical assistance arrangement between the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office in India and the Indian Ministry of Finance Enforcement Directorate (MOF-ED).
On 22 and 23 February 2016, the Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) conducted an awareness raising seminar for approximately 100 prosecutors, investigators and other members of the International Criminal Court (ICC), held at the seat of the Court in The Hague, on financial investigations and asset recovery.