From 30 June to 4 July 2014, the Asset Recovery Inter-Agency Network of South Africa (ARINSA), the United Nations Office on Drugs (UNODC) and the International Center of Asset Recovery (ICAR) conducted a joint Workshop for Prosecutors and Investigators on Proceeds of Crime and Money Laundering in Lilongwe, Malawi.

The workshop programme was designed to raise awareness of proceeds of crime and money laundering. Some 24 participants from a number of government agencies of Malawi attended the training workshop.

The five-day workshop incorporated practical sessions on a number of relevant topics including applying search warrants to obtain financial documents, preparing production orders and restraining orders, drafting indictments in money laundering cases, preparing requests for mutual legal assistance, developing legal arguments, preparing both criminal and civil forfeiture/confiscation orders, as well as effecting the enforcement of such forfeiture and confiscation orders.

The workshop sessions involved an interactive practical approach based on case scenarios that could potentially occur in real life. Fitz-Roy Drayton, Advisor of ARINSA, and Kodjo Attisso, Asset Recovery Specialist of ICAR, facilitated the workshop.