Federico Paesano, Senior Financial Investigations Specialist at the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) participated in the 5th Annual General Meeting of the Global Focal Points Network in Vienna during 9-10 October 2014. The event was organised by the World Bank and UNODC’s Stolen Assets Recovery Initiative (StAR) and Interpol.

He was invited to participate, together with three other experts, on a panel covering the topic “Recovering of Assets in the Cyber Era.”

He gave a presentation on “Decentralised systems, a new approach to Asset Recovery” which focused on the challenges posed to investigators and prosecutors in the field of asset recovery by the development of peer-to-peer currencies like Bitcoin.