[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":177},["ShallowReactive",2],{"author-363":3,"author-team-363":6,"author-work-363":7},{"id":4,"name":5,"image":6},363,"International Centre for Asset Recovery",null,{"publications":8,"news":176},[9,37,49,78,94,111,132,143,155],{"id":10,"title":11,"slug":12,"image":13,"type":14,"date_published":16,"publisher":17,"summary":6,"body":18,"area":6,"programme":6,"languages":19,"countries":21,"tags":28},2265,"Case Study 10: Using full legal means to confiscate illicit assets in a time of war","case-study-10-using-full-legal-means-confiscate-illicit-assets-time-war","bc1ae384-869c-4342-b438-53bbe4e5c6f6",[15],"Case Study","2023-02-20","Basel Institute on Governance","This case study describes how Switzerland is putting to test a rarely used but powerful law in order to confiscate assets connected to Ukraine’s 2014 Revolution of Dignity, with the aim of returning these to Ukraine.\n\n### Open-access licence and acknowledgements\n\nThis publication is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Case Study series, \u003Ca href=\"https://baselgovernance.org/case-studies\">ISSN 2813-3900\u003C/a>. It is licensed for sharing under a Creative Commons \u003Ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">BY-NC-ND 4.0\u003C/a> licence.\n\nThe Case Study series offers practitioners insights into interesting and precedent-setting cases involving corruption and asset recovery. Many such cases are drawn from partner countries of the Basel Institute's \u003Ca href=\"https://baselgovernance.org/asset-recovery\">International Centre for Asset Recovery\u003C/a>.\n\nSuggested citation: International Centre for Asset Recovery. 2023. “Using full legal means to confiscate illicit assets in a time of war.\" *Case Study* 10, Basel Institute on Governance. Available at: baselgovernance.org/case-studies.",[20],"English",[22,25],{"countries_id":23},{"name":24},"Ukraine",{"countries_id":26},{"name":27},"Switzerland",[29,33],{"tags_id":30},{"id":31,"name":32},843,"Asset recovery",{"tags_id":34},{"id":35,"name":36},822,"International cooperation",{"id":38,"title":39,"slug":40,"image":41,"type":42,"date_published":44,"publisher":17,"summary":6,"body":45,"area":6,"programme":6,"languages":46,"countries":47,"tags":48},1784,"Brochure: Training programmes – Financial investigations and asset recovery","brochure-training-programmes-financial-investigations-and-asset-recovery","6a5f9fd9-1622-4e1f-adb6-c10af6174c7b",[43],"Flyer","2021-10-12","This brochure gives details about the training programmes of our International Centre for Asset Recovery, which are developed for and delivered to government and institutional partners.\n\nIt is available in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese and was last updated in October 2021.\n\nFor more information, see also the dedicated \u003Ca href=\"https://baselgovernance.org/asset-recovery/training-programmes\">ICAR training web pages\u003C/a>.",[20],[],[],{"id":50,"title":51,"slug":52,"image":53,"type":54,"date_published":56,"publisher":17,"summary":6,"body":57,"area":6,"programme":6,"languages":58,"countries":62,"tags":63},2059,"Tracing Illegal Assets - A Practitioner's Guide","tracing-illegal-assets-practitioners-guide","d38916cc-489e-418e-a4f7-40658a411835",[55],"Guidelines","2015-01-01","A fundamental priority for law enforcement authorities dealing with financial crime is to recover illegally obtained assets and deny criminals access to the proceeds of their crime. The recovery of illegally obtained assets, however, requires first to successfully trace them.\n\nAsset tracing refers to the process whereby an investigator identifies, tracks and locates proceeds of crime. In a traditional asset tracing investigation, there are three objectives: locating the assets, linking them to an unlawful activity so as to obtain freezing and confiscation orders, and proving the commission of the relevant offences.\n\nThis guide, written by practitioners working for ICAR, is concerned with a practical approach to tracing illegally obtained assets with a strong emphasis on the intelligence and investigatory aspects of asset recovery. It is addressed to an audience with a law enforcement background, including prosecutors, as well as to other practitioners in the field, such as lawyers, financial advisors, investigative journalists and activists. \n\nThe chapters of this guide provide practical guidance on the asset tracing process by addressing the pre-investigative and investigative stages, the mutual legal assistance process and the freezing or seizure of assets through the use of the anti-money laundering framework. They also address the use of offshore vehicles and digital currencies as means to hide the source of illicitly obtained proceeds.\n\nIt is not the intention of the authors to deal exhaustively with the entire process whereby assets are ultimately forfeited or confiscated. However, practitioners can benefit from an easy-to-understand handbook that guides them through the key and critical steps by stressing the strategic considerations as well as crucial checklists for a successful recovery of illegally obtained assets.",[59,20,60,61],"Bulgarian","Spanish","Ukrainian",[],[64,68,72,76],{"tags_id":65},{"id":66,"name":67},818,"Anti-money laundering",{"tags_id":69},{"id":70,"name":71},1193,"Financial investigations",{"tags_id":73},{"id":74,"name":75},1375,"Civil society",{"tags_id":77},{"id":35,"name":36},{"id":79,"title":80,"slug":81,"image":82,"type":83,"date_published":84,"publisher":17,"summary":6,"body":85,"area":6,"programme":6,"languages":86,"countries":88,"tags":89},2076,"Guide to the role of civil society organisations in asset recovery","guide-role-civil-society-organisations-asset-recovery","12081d59-5951-4f31-8ca6-d59f0a244d6a",[55],"2014-07-30","Asset recovery refers to the process by which the proceeds of crime are identified, traced, seized, confiscated and returned to their rightful owners. Generally speaking, States need to lead the process of recovering stolen assets. \n\nHowever, civil society organisations (CSOs) can play an important role in the different stages of the asset recovery process. \n\nThis guide:\n\n\n- seeks to assist interested CSOs to understand potential areas of engagement and strategic considerations regarding routes of engagement; \n- highlights potential risks and challenges and how these may be mitigated; \n- provides case examples of CSO efforts in support of the recovery of stolen assets.\n\n\nThe guide was first developed by the \u003Ca href=\"https://www.baselgovernance.org/asset-recovery\">International Centre for Asset Recovery\u003C/a> at the Basel Institute on Governance, jointly with partners, in the context of the Arab Forum on Asset Recovery (AFAR). Its content is applicable at a global level and can serve as a useful guidance to CSOs from other regions as well.\n\nICAR expresses its appreciation to the United Kingdom G8 Presidency, the World Bank/UNODC \u003Ca href=\"http://star.worldbank.org/\">Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR)\u003C/a> and Ambassador Muhyieddeen Touq of Jordan for their advice and support, and the following CSOs for their valuable contributions:\n\n\n- Association Tunisienne pour la Transparence Financière (ATTF)\n- Yemeni National Authority for Recovering Stolen Assets (AWAM)\n- \u003Ca href=\"https://eipr.org/en\">Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR)\u003C/a>\n- \u003Ca href=\"https://www.globalwitness.org/\">Global Witness\u003C/a>\n- \u003Ca href=\"https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/who-we-are/programs/open-society-justice-initiative\">Open Society Justice Initiative\u003C/a>\n- \u003Ca href=\"https://www.asso-sherpa.org/\">Sherpa\u003C/a>\n",[87,20,61],"Arabic",[],[90,92],{"tags_id":91},{"id":31,"name":32},{"tags_id":93},{"id":74,"name":75},{"id":95,"title":96,"slug":97,"image":98,"type":99,"date_published":101,"publisher":17,"summary":6,"body":102,"area":6,"programme":6,"languages":103,"countries":104,"tags":108},2097,"Enhancing the investigation capacities of the Romanian authorities to confiscate and recover proceeds of crime","enhancing-investigation-capacities-romanian-authorities-confiscate-and-recover","c6d4677d-61bb-4bef-8932-acfb9d99dc5c",[100],"Report","2013-01-01","The Basel Institute has been working with the Ministry of Justice of Romania in a two-component project seeking to enhance the capacity of the Romanian authorities to recover the proceeds of crime. The project is being implemented by the Asset Recovery Office (ARO) of the Ministry of Justice in collaboration with the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) of the Basel Institute. Funding of the project has been provided by the Swiss-Romanian Co-operation Programme.\n\nThe report refers to the external audit of the of the Romanian ARO and asset recovery system conducted by the ICAR, and assesses the legal and institutional framework of the Romanian asset recovery model, together with recommendations to improve its effectiveness.",[20],[105],{"countries_id":106},{"name":107},"Romania",[109],{"tags_id":110},{"id":31,"name":32},{"id":112,"title":113,"slug":114,"image":115,"type":116,"date_published":117,"publisher":17,"summary":6,"body":118,"area":6,"programme":6,"languages":119,"countries":120,"tags":121},2137,"Capacity Building in Asset Recovery","capacity-building-asset-recovery","2a812d4f-72a1-4609-8185-34b3c6d8df27",[55],"2011-01-01","Corruption is one of the endemic evils in today’s world. The phenomenon has negative impacts on world poverty, democratic governance, progress and development. According to the World Bank, USD 20 to 40 billion is lost annually by developing nations because of corruption. With the adoption of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC), the international community aims at setting up a comprehensive global framework to contain and ultimately lower significantly the levels of corruption worldwide. Chapter IV of the UNCAC focuses on asset recovery and provides tools for effectively fighting corruption.\n\nAsset recovery is the process whereby the proceeds of corruption are traced, frozen, confiscated and repatriated in favour of countries that become victims to corruption. Asset recovery is an effective countermeasure to corruption because it signalises to corrupt leaders that corruption no longer pays. However, many developing countries still lack the skills to collect evidence, prepare indictments, adjudicate cases and obtain convictions.\n\nThis publication demonstrates what asset recovery means, and, most importantly, how capacity building is needed to fight corruption in today’s world. Successful asset recovery can function as a powerful tool to repair the damage caused by corruption. Skilled hands can effectively use asset recovery to help bring justice to those who have suffered from the diverse consequences of corruption.",[20],[],[122,124,128],{"tags_id":123},{"id":31,"name":32},{"tags_id":125},{"id":126,"name":127},1372,"Training",{"tags_id":129},{"id":130,"name":131},982,"Anti-corruption",{"id":133,"title":134,"slug":135,"image":136,"type":137,"date_published":117,"publisher":17,"summary":6,"body":139,"area":6,"programme":6,"languages":140,"countries":141,"tags":142},2139,"Development Assistance, Asset Recovery and Money Laundering: Making the Connection","development-assistance-asset-recovery-and-money-laundering-making-connection","f9514346-26fa-434a-8c9f-b5cf8cbd6cae",[138,55],"Article","The traditional criminal response has been insufficient in the combat against corruption, money laundering and other financial crimes. Billions of dollars continue to be laundered by individuals and criminal organisations through and ever-growing myriad of complex financial schemes. Official Development Assistance (ODA), a fundamental tool of development policy, is equally prone to corruption, embezzlement and abuse — to the extent that up to 30% of disbursements may be siphoned off by corrupt actors and criminal organisations.\n\nThe international response to effective combating of such crimes is through the asset recovery process. It is a multi-layered process which spans from intelligence gathering to recovering of stolen assets. Its effectiveness, however, is dependent on knowledge on the process, political will from within and co-ordination of efforts between countries that fall victim to such crimes and countries which are recipients of these proceeds.\n\nThis brochure seeks to provide a basic understanding of money laundering and the asset recovery process and their link with development agencies. It covers the definition of money laundering, its predicate offences and some typologies, as well as a basic understanding of the phases and steps which comprise the asset recovery process. Furthermore, it demonstrates how these two fields link with the development agenda.\n\nThe brochure, however, does not present an exhaustive list of activities that can be pursued by development agencies to reduce money laundering and corruption in their disbursements and in recipient countries, but rather seeks to inspire people to reflect on activities that may be pursued to reduce money laundering and corruption through asset recovery.",[20],[],[],{"id":144,"title":145,"slug":146,"image":6,"type":147,"date_published":148,"publisher":17,"summary":6,"body":149,"area":6,"programme":6,"languages":150,"countries":151,"tags":152},2145,"Non-State Actors Experts's Meeting report","non-state-actors-expertss-meeting-report",[100],"2010-09-23","This is the report from the \u003Ca href=\"https://baselgovernance.org/news/non-state-actors-experts-meeting-laxenburg-austria\">Non-State Actors Experts' Meeting\u003C/a>, held on 2-3 September 2010 in Laxenburg, Austria. The event was co-organised by the Basel Institute on Governance and the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA). Attendance included prominent non-state actors from both developing and developed countries that play and important and active role in the asset recovery processes.\n\nThe participation comprised of five main theme groups: academia, civil society, private sector, service providers and media. Each of these groups play a distinct but equally important role within asset recovery.\n\nThe meeting sought to clarify the roles of the non-state actors in the field, and draw up areas in which non-state actors have to drive the asset recovery agenda in co-ordination.",[20],[],[153],{"tags_id":154},{"id":31,"name":32},{"id":156,"title":157,"slug":158,"image":159,"type":160,"date_published":161,"publisher":17,"summary":6,"body":162,"area":6,"programme":6,"languages":163,"countries":166,"tags":167},2158,"Tracing Stolen Assets - A Practitioner's Handbook","tracing-stolen-assets-practitioners-handbook","d5091ebe-412e-4971-8a9b-61f68ae193b3",[55],"2009-01-01","In many countries, criminal investigations are primarily directed towards the investigation of the underlying criminality. It is still comparatively rare for investigators, as a routine part of the investigation of major proceeds-generating offences, to “follow the money”. To trace money and property successfully, the investigator must be equipped to uncover and identify ownership interests often camouflaged by changes in the form and nature of the ownership.\n\nThis handbook aims to provide practical guidance to the investigator to the point where judicial proceedings aimed at the forfeiture or confiscation of the proceeds of crime may be instituted. It not only covers the pre-investigative and investigative stages during which information is collated and verified and assets are identified and located. It also provides guidance aimed at the freezing or seizure of assets.\n\nIt is not the intention of this handbook to deal exhaustively with the entire process in terms of which assets are ultimately forfeited or confiscated. However, the authors do highlight some of the major steps an investigator needs to take in order to ensure a thorough and effective asset tracing investigation.",[20,164,165],"Russian","Thai",[],[168,170,172],{"tags_id":169},{"id":31,"name":32},{"tags_id":171},{"id":70,"name":71},{"tags_id":173},{"id":174,"name":175},1374,"Law enforcement",[],1784560158489]