Romania has recently launched a project to “Support achieving the National Anticorruption Strategy objectives by increasing the efficiency of the asset recovery and management”. The project is funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation (SDC), through the Swiss-Romanian Co-operation Programme.

The beneficiary agency of the project is the National Agency for the Management of Seized Assets of Romania (ANABI). ICAR experts will assist ANABI in developing and implementing a national electronic system to manage seized and confiscated criminal assets. This new cooperation between Romania and ICAR follows on from an earlier joint project, then with the Ministry of Justice of Romania, in which ICAR issued a series of recommendations to enhance the investigation capacities of the Romanian authorities to confiscate and recover proceeds of crime.

The activities to be organised within the ANABI project include a special toolkit containing training material, elaborated and delivered by ICAR experts. In addition, they will also organise training sessions for the prosecutors, police officers, representatives of the National Fiscal Administration and the Romanian Asset Recovery Office on the most recent financial investigation techniques used at European and international level.

The training sessions will start at the end of January 2017 and include a Train-The-Trainer component to ensure sustainability.