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By preventing criminal wealth from being hidden, transferred or reinvested, it can strengthen asset recovery and help disrupt the financial foundations of organised crime and corruption.\n\n## About the Commission\n\nChaired by the Attorney General, the Commission brings together senior prosecutors and representatives of institutions responsible for financial intelligence, law enforcement, asset recovery, taxation and public registries. It will also hear directly from specialised prosecutors, lawyers, judges and academics about the challenges they face and their proposals for reform.\n\nThe Commission will meet twice a week and aims to produce a legislative proposal within three months. Its broad and inclusive approach is designed to deliver legislation that is both effective and respectful of human rights.\n\n## Technical assistance for legal reforms\n\nOscar Solórzano, Head of Latin America for the Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery, will serve as the Commission’s Technical Secretariat, together with Deputy Head Walther Delgado. \n\nThis is an important opportunity to support a balanced reform that strengthens Peru’s ability to recover illicit assets while upholding due process, protecting legitimately acquired property and reflecting international standards. \n\nThese are critical aspects to ensure the law’s legitimacy, as Oscar Solórzano argued in 2024 in a [Working Paper: Targeting illicit wealth through non-conviction based forfeiture: Identifying human rights and other standards for Latin America](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fwp-54).\n\n## Timeline of Peru’s non-conviction based forfeiture law\n\nThe journey of Peru’s extinción de dominio framework makes an interesting case study in the development and use of laws designed to help combat corruption and organised crime. The Basel Institute has been closely involved for more than a decade, under programmes of the Swiss SECO-funded [Programa GFP Subnacional](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gfpsubnacional.pe\u002F), whose asset recovery activities are coordinated by Sergio Jiménez Niño, and the Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery. \n\nThe Peruvian experience provides a concrete example of a non-conviction based confiscation system that, following a period of significant implementation, is now undergoing a process of reassessment and adaptation in response to a substantial legal and political backlash framed largely around constitutional guarantees, due process and the protection of fundamental rights.\n\nThe following timeline provides some insight and sets the context for the debates to come:\n\n### 2018–2023: Building and testing a specialised system\n\nPeru’s current extinción de dominio framework was established by Legislative Decree 1373 in 2018, replacing the previous pérdida de dominio regime with an autonomous, property-based judicial process for recovering assets linked to illicit activity without requiring a prior criminal conviction.\n\nA [specialised judicial and prosecutorial system](https:\u002F\u002Fextinciondedominio.org\u002F) was subsequently established across the country. Over the following years, the framework moved from legislation to practice. Prosecutors and judges developed experience, jurisprudence emerged and institutions worked to harmonise criteria. \n\nThe Basel Institute supported this process through training, technical advice, case-based assistance, international cooperation and the development of reference material such as a two-part [Compendium of Jurisprudence on Extinción de Dominio](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Flaunch-of-compendium-of-jurisprudence-on-perus-non-conviction-based-confiscation-law-2062\u002F). The team also organised national conventions for specialised [prosecutors](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fnews\u002Fnational-convention-prosecutors-peru-celebrates-three-years-applying-its-non-conviction-based) and [judges](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fjudges-convention-shows-why-peru-is-a-leader-in-recovering-proceeds-of-corruption-through-non-conviction-based-forfeiture-2357) to harmonise understanding and application of the law across Peru.\n\nThe system delivered significant results, recovering assets worth well hundreds of millions in US dollars and allowing Peruvian decisions to be recognised and enforced in several cases internationally.\n\nBut implementation also brought difficult legal and practical questions to the surface, particularly concerning the autonomy of extinción de dominio from criminal proceedings, property rights, temporal application, evidentiary rules and procedural safeguards.\n\n### 2024–2025: Constitutional scrutiny and legislative change\n\nIn 2024, a constitutional challenge brought by Peru’s Ombudsman placed central elements of Legislative Decree 1373 before the Constitutional Court. At the same time, Congress was considering substantial legislative changes to the system. \n\nThe Basel Institute set out technical arguments to inform the discussion, among others in [public articles](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fel-desmantelamiento-de-la-recuperacion-de-activos-en-el-peru-un-llamado-a-la-cautela-y-a-la-construccion-de-consensos-en-torno-al-proyecto-de-ley-3577-2022-2736\u002F) and a series of [recorded debates](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=mIV_R8FOYNw&list=PLYRnhpCcnLP9s4bZW_W390N64JDFJXJnw&index=2). \n\nIn May 2025, Law 32326 substantially amended the framework. The changes affected, among other things, the autonomy and scope of extinción de dominio, evidentiary requirements and limitation periods. \n\nThe Public Prosecutor’s Office subsequently challenged the constitutionality of several of those amendments – a pending case that remains relevant to the current reform process. \n\nThen came [Judgment 135\u002F2025](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.tc.gob.pe\u002Fjurisprudencia\u002F2025\u002F00008-2024-AI.pdf) of the Constitutional Court. The Court declared parts of the original framework unconstitutional and established binding interpretative criteria on issues including property rights, due process and the relationship between extinción de dominio and criminal proceedings. It ruled, in particular, that Legislative Decree 1373 could only apply to circumstances occurring after its entry into force. \n\nImportantly, the judgment did not bring extinción de dominio to an end. It established constitutional limits that the reform must respect, while also leaving room for legislative choices on important aspects of the system. \n\n### 2026: From successive changes to comprehensive reform\n\nThis is the legal and institutional landscape inherited by the new Commission. It must consider: \n\n- the original architecture of Legislative Decree 1373; \n- the amendments introduced by Law 32326; \n- the binding constitutional parameters established by Judgment 135\u002F2025; and \n- the unresolved constitutional questions concerning the 2025 amendments. \n\nBeyond correcting individual provisions of the law, the Commission must grapple with the question: \n\n*What model of non-conviction based forfeiture should Peru have, taking into account its constitutional framework, international standards and the criminal reality the mechanism is intended to address?*\n\n## Four areas at the heart of the reform\n\nThe Commission has organised its work around four thematic areas. Each addresses a set of issues that has emerged from the experience of applying the law, the legislative changes and the Constitutional Court’s judgment.\n\n1.\t**Nature, scope and autonomy** What should be the purpose and scope of non-conviction based forfeiture? When should it be available, what assets should it cover and how autonomous should it remain from criminal proceedings? The discussion also concerns its relationship with conviction-based confiscation and other asset recovery mechanisms. \n2.\t**Temporal application, legal certainty and protection of rights** How should the framework address temporal application and limitation periods while protecting property and fair trial rights, bona fide third parties and victims? What consequences should subsequent criminal decisions have for assets already forfeited? \n3.\t**Procedure, evidence and due process** What rules are needed for financial investigations, interim measures, burdens and standards of proof, rights of defence and judicial review? These questions go directly to how an effective asset recovery mechanism can operate within clear procedural guarantees.\n4.\t**Effectiveness** International cooperation, enforcement and asset management. A successful system must also work beyond the courtroom. This area covers international cooperation, recognition and enforcement of foreign decisions, early information exchange, execution of confiscation decisions, management and preservation of assets, restitution and asset sharing, and coordination between the institutions involved in the asset recovery process. \n\nThe Commission is addressing these areas progressively. It began in September by listening to specialised extinción de dominio prosecutors from across Peru about the problems encountered in practice and the effects of the legislative reform and the Constitutional Court judgment. \n\nNational and international experts are then being invited to examine the different thematic areas before the Commission moves into deliberation and legislative drafting. \n\n## Value of a multidisciplinary, participatory approach\n\nThis approach is particularly valuable because many of the questions now being examined in Peru are not new. \n\nThe autonomy of non-conviction based forfeiture, its relationship with criminal proceedings, retroactivity, property rights, evidentiary standards and due process have historically been among the main grounds on which such systems have been questioned around the world. \n\nWhat makes the Peruvian experience unusual is the possibility of observing these questions in real time. Rather than examining them retrospectively, the Commission can consider how they have arisen in a mature system, listen to those who have applied the law, hear different legal and institutional perspectives and assess possible solutions while the framework itself is being reconsidered.\n\nIn that sense, Peru provides a particularly interesting opportunity to revisit in practice issues that have accompanied non-conviction based forfeiture internationally for decades. These are also central to the Basel Institute’s [Working Paper 54: Targeting illicit wealth through non-conviction based forfeiture: Identifying human rights and other standards for Latin America](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fwp-54), which examines how effectiveness, human rights, procedural safeguards and international standards can be reconciled in the design and application of these mechanisms.\n\n## A reform against the clock\n\nThe Commission is working under an exceptionally demanding timeframe. It has only three months to develop a comprehensive proposal on issues involving constitutional rights, criminal policy and the practical effectiveness of asset recovery.\n\nThe short deadline reflects a deliberate sense of urgency. After months in which the reform process had largely stalled, Attorney General Tomás Gálvez has decided to use his legislative initiative to move it forward and seek a workable proposal as quickly as possible. Organised crime and illicit economies have not stood still in the meantime, and Peru needs an effective legal framework to target the assets that sustain them.\n\nThat urgency is also reflected in the way the Commission is working. It meets twice a week, bringing together specialised prosecutors and national and international experts to examine the four thematic areas, test different approaches and progressively build consensus. The methodology requires intensive legal and comparative analysis, but also negotiation between different institutional perspectives within a highly compressed timeframe.\n\nThe task is difficult precisely because both considerations are real: the urgency of strengthening Peru’s response to organised crime, and the need to ensure that the resulting framework is constitutionally sound, effective and sustainable.\n","2026-09-24",null,"peru-to-reform-key-asset-recovery-law-with-basel-institute-support",[16],"Asset Recovery and Enforcement",[18],"Main page","English",{"id":21,"storage":22,"filename_disk":23,"filename_download":24,"title":25,"type":26,"created_on":27,"modified_on":7,"charset":13,"filesize":28,"width":29,"height":30,"duration":13,"embed":13,"description":31,"location":13,"tags":13,"metadata":32,"focal_point_x":13,"focal_point_y":13,"tus_id":13,"tus_data":13,"uploaded_on":27},"55a5a372-772b-4578-aeb5-03b5c752ac98","local","55a5a372-772b-4578-aeb5-03b5c752ac98.jpg","Peru Commission Asset Recovery light.jpg","Peru Commission Asset Recovery","image\u002Fjpeg","2026-09-24T08:57:29.000Z",196056,2000,1200,"Commission representatives at the kick-off meeting on 9 September 2026.",{},[34],{"id":35,"news_id":36,"countries_id":50},7844,{"id":5,"status":6,"user_created":37,"date_created":7,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":8,"title":9,"type":10,"body":11,"image":21,"date":12,"topic":13,"slug":14,"activity":13,"nid":13,"topics":38,"activities":13,"programme":13,"area":13,"websites":39,"translation_of":13,"language":19,"countries":40,"tags":41,"authors":44,"images":45,"translations":46,"content":47,"translations_news":48},"115250da-6c1d-42e7-888a-fbbe909fc524",[16],[18],[35],[42,43],6113,6114,[],[],[],[],[49],10,{"id":51,"name":52,"code":53,"latitude":54,"longitude":55},171,"Peru","PE",-9.18997,-75.01515,[57,71],{"id":42,"news_id":58,"tags_id":68},{"id":5,"status":6,"user_created":37,"date_created":7,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":8,"title":9,"type":10,"body":11,"image":21,"date":12,"topic":13,"slug":14,"activity":13,"nid":13,"topics":59,"activities":13,"programme":13,"area":13,"websites":60,"translation_of":13,"language":19,"countries":61,"tags":62,"authors":63,"images":64,"translations":65,"content":66,"translations_news":67},[16],[18],[35],[42,43],[],[],[],[],[49],{"id":69,"name":70},843,"Asset recovery",{"id":43,"news_id":72,"tags_id":82},{"id":5,"status":6,"user_created":37,"date_created":7,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":8,"title":9,"type":10,"body":11,"image":21,"date":12,"topic":13,"slug":14,"activity":13,"nid":13,"topics":73,"activities":13,"programme":13,"area":13,"websites":74,"translation_of":13,"language":19,"countries":75,"tags":76,"authors":77,"images":78,"translations":79,"content":80,"translations_news":81},[16],[18],[35],[42,43],[],[],[],[],[49],{"id":83,"name":84},1379,"Non-conviction based forfeiture",[],[],[],[],[90],{"id":49,"language":91,"title":92,"slug":93,"body":94,"status":6,"news":95},"es","Perú reformará una ley clave de recuperación de activos con el apoyo del Basel Institute","peru-reformara-ley-de-recuperacion-de-activos-con-apoyo-del-basel-institute","El Fiscal de la Nación del Perú, Tomás Gálvez, ha [conformado una Comisión multidisciplinaria](https:\u002F\u002Fbusquedas.elperuano.pe\u002Fdispositivo\u002FNL\u002F2548468-1) encargada de elaborar una propuesta de reforma integral del marco normativo de extinción de dominio del país. \n\nEl Basel Institute on Governance ha sido designado para ejercer la Secretaría Técnica de la Comisión, como una extensión de nuestra larga cooperación con el Ministerio Público – Fiscalía de la Nación del Perú.\n\nEl decomiso sin condena – que en el Perú se plasma en la legislación de extinción de dominio – permite al Estado recuperar bienes vinculados a actividades ilícitas al margen del proceso penal. Al impedir que el patrimonio criminal se oculte, transfiera o reinvierta, puede fortalecer la recuperación de activos y contribuir a desarticular las bases financieras de la criminalidad organizada y la corrupción.\n\n## Sobre la Comisión\n\nPresidida por el Fiscal de la Nación, la Comisión reúne a fiscales de alto nivel y a representantes de las instituciones a cargo de la inteligencia financiera, la labor policial, la recuperación de activos, la administración tributaria y los registros públicos. Asimismo, escuchará de primera mano a fiscales especializados, abogados, jueces y académicos sobre los desafíos que enfrentan y sus propuestas de reforma.\n\nLa Comisión sesionará dos veces por semana y tiene como objetivo elaborar una propuesta legislativa en un plazo de tres meses. Su enfoque amplio e inclusivo busca dar lugar a una legislación que sea a la vez eficaz y respetuosa de los derechos humanos.\n\n## Asistencia técnica para las reformas legales\n\nOscar Solórzano, Director para América Latina del International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) del Basel Institute, ejercerá la Secretaría Técnica de la Comisión junto con el Director Adjunto, Walther Delgado. \n\nSe trata de una oportunidad importante para apoyar una reforma equilibrada que fortalezca la capacidad del Perú para recuperar activos ilícitos, respetando al mismo tiempo el debido proceso, protegiendo la propiedad lícitamente adquirida y reflejando los estándares internacionales. \n\nEstos aspectos son fundamentales para garantizar la legitimidad de la ley, tal como sostuvo Oscar Solórzano en 2024 en un documento de trabajo (Working Paper, en inglés): [Targeting illicit wealth through non-conviction based forfeiture: Identifying human rights and other standards for Latin America](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fwp-54).\n\n## Cronología de la ley de extinción de dominio del Perú\n\nLa trayectoria del marco de extinción de dominio del Perú constituye un interesante caso de estudio sobre el desarrollo y la aplicación de leyes diseñadas para ayudar a combatir la corrupción y la criminalidad organizada. El Basel Institute ha participado de cerca en este proceso durante más de una década, en el marco del [Programa GFP Subnacional](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gfpsubnacional.pe\u002F) de la Cooperación Suiza – SECO y del International Centre for Asset Recovery. \n\nLa experiencia peruana ofrece un ejemplo concreto de un sistema de decomiso sin condena que, tras un periodo de implementación significativa, atraviesa ahora un proceso de revisión y adaptación en respuesta a una importante reacción jurídica y política, planteada en gran medida en torno a las garantías constitucionales, el debido proceso y la protección de los derechos fundamentales.\n\nLa siguiente cronología ofrece algunas claves y sitúa en contexto los debates que se avecinan:\n\n### 2018–2023: construcción y puesta a prueba de un sistema especializado\n\nEl actual marco de extinción de dominio del Perú fue establecido en 2018 mediante el Decreto Legislativo 1373, que reemplazó el anterior régimen de pérdida de dominio por un proceso judicial autónomo, de carácter real, para recuperar bienes vinculados a actividades ilícitas sin necesidad de una condena penal previa.\n\nPosteriormente, se implementó en todo el país un [Subsistema Especializado en Extinción de Dominio](https:\u002F\u002Fextinciondedominio.org\u002F), con juzgados, salas y fiscalías especializadas. En los años siguientes, el marco pasó de la norma a la práctica: fiscales y jueces fueron adquiriendo experiencia, surgió jurisprudencia y las instituciones trabajaron para uniformizar criterios. \n\nEl Basel Institute apoyó este proceso mediante capacitación, asesoría técnica, asistencia en casos concretos, cooperación internacional y la elaboración de material de referencia, como el [Compendio de Jurisprudencia de Extinción de Dominio](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gob.pe\u002Finstitucion\u002Fprocuraduria\u002Finformes-publicaciones\u002F1976509-compendio-de-jurisprudencia-de-extincion-de-dominio) en dos volúmenes. El equipo también organizó convenciones nacionales de [fiscales](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fnational-convention-of-prosecutors-in-peru-celebrates-three-years-of-applying-its-non-conviction-based-forfeiture-law-2239\u002F) y [jueces](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fjudges-convention-shows-why-peru-is-a-leader-in-recovering-proceeds-of-corruption-through-non-conviction-based-forfeiture-2357\u002F) especializados para uniformizar la comprensión y aplicación de la ley en todo el Perú.\n\nEl sistema obtuvo resultados significativos: permitió recuperar activos por un valor de varios cientos de millones de dólares estadounidenses y que, en varios casos, las decisiones peruanas fueran reconocidas y ejecutadas en el extranjero.\n\nSin embargo, la implementación también puso de manifiesto complejas cuestiones jurídicas y prácticas, en particular en relación con la autonomía de la extinción de dominio respecto del proceso penal, el derecho de propiedad, la aplicación temporal, las reglas probatorias y las garantías procesales.\n\n### 2024–2025: control constitucional y cambios legislativos\n\nEn 2024, una demanda de inconstitucionalidad interpuesta por la Defensoría del Pueblo sometió aspectos centrales del Decreto Legislativo 1373 al Tribunal Constitucional. Al mismo tiempo, el Congreso de la República evaluaba cambios legislativos sustanciales al sistema. \n\nEl Basel Institute presentó argumentos técnicos para contribuir a la discusión, entre otros, en [artículos públicos](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fel-desmantelamiento-de-la-recuperacion-de-activos-en-el-peru-un-llamado-a-la-cautela-y-a-la-construccion-de-consensos-en-torno-al-proyecto-de-ley-3577-2022-2736\u002F) y en una [serie de debates](youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=mIV_R8FOYNw&list=PLYRnhpCcnLP9s4bZW_W390N64JDFJXJnw&index=2) que fueron grabados.\n\nEn mayo de 2025, la Ley 32326 modificó sustancialmente el marco normativo. Los cambios afectaron, entre otros aspectos, la autonomía y el ámbito de aplicación de la extinción de dominio, los requisitos probatorios y los plazos de prescripción. \n\nPosteriormente, el Ministerio Público interpuso una demanda de inconstitucionalidad contra varias de esas modificaciones, un proceso aún pendiente que sigue siendo relevante para la actual reforma. \n\nLuego llegó la [Sentencia 135\u002F2025](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.tc.gob.pe\u002Fjurisprudencia\u002F2025\u002F00008-2024-AI.pdf) del Tribunal Constitucional. El Tribunal declaró inconstitucionales partes del marco original y estableció criterios interpretativos vinculantes sobre cuestiones como el derecho de propiedad, el debido proceso y la relación entre la extinción de dominio y el proceso penal. En particular, determinó que el Decreto Legislativo 1373 solo podía aplicarse a supuestos acaecidos con posterioridad a su entrada en vigor. \n\nCabe destacar que la sentencia no puso fin a la extinción de dominio. Estableció límites constitucionales que la reforma debe respetar, pero también dejó margen para opciones legislativas en aspectos importantes del sistema. \n\n### 2026: de los cambios sucesivos a una reforma integral\n\nEste es el panorama jurídico e institucional que hereda la nueva Comisión, la cual deberá considerar: \n\n- la arquitectura original del Decreto Legislativo 1373; \n- las modificaciones introducidas por la Ley 32326; \n- los parámetros constitucionales vinculantes establecidos por la Sentencia 135\u002F2025; y \n- las cuestiones constitucionales aún no resueltas respecto de las modificaciones de 2025. \n\nMás allá de corregir disposiciones puntuales de la ley, la Comisión debe abordar la siguiente pregunta: \n\n*¿Qué modelo de decomiso sin condena debe tener el Perú, teniendo en cuenta su marco constitucional, los estándares internacionales y la realidad criminal que el mecanismo pretende enfrentar?*\n\n## Los cuatro ejes centrales de la reforma\n\nLa Comisión ha organizado su trabajo en torno a cuatro ejes temáticos. Cada uno aborda un conjunto de temáticas surgidas de la experiencia en la aplicación de la ley, de los cambios legislativos y de la sentencia del Tribunal Constitucional.\n\n1.\t**Naturaleza, ámbito de aplicación y autonomía** ¿Cuál debe ser la finalidad y el ámbito de aplicación de la extinción de dominio? ¿En qué supuestos debe proceder, qué bienes debe comprender y qué grado de autonomía debe conservar respecto del proceso penal? La discusión abarca también su relación con el decomiso penal y con otros mecanismos de recuperación de activos. \n2.\t**Aplicación temporal, seguridad jurídica y protección de derechos** ¿Cómo debe abordar el marco normativo la aplicación temporal y los plazos de prescripción, protegiendo a la vez el derecho de propiedad y el derecho a un debido proceso, así como a los terceros de buena fe y a las víctimas? ¿Qué consecuencias deben tener las decisiones penales posteriores sobre los bienes cuyo dominio ya se ha extinguido? \n3.\t**Procedimiento, prueba y debido proceso** ¿Qué reglas se necesitan en materia de indagación patrimonial, medidas cautelares, carga y estándar de la prueba, derecho de defensa y control judicial? Estas preguntas apuntan directamente a cómo un mecanismo eficaz de recuperación de activos puede operar dentro de garantías procesales claras.\n4.\t**Eficacia** Cooperación internacional, ejecución y administración de bienes. Un sistema exitoso también debe funcionar más allá de la sala de audiencias. Este eje abarca la cooperación internacional, el reconocimiento y la ejecución de decisiones extranjeras, el intercambio temprano de información, la ejecución de las sentencias de extinción de dominio, la administración y conservación de los bienes, la restitución y la repartición de activos, así como la coordinación entre las instituciones que intervienen en el proceso de recuperación de activos. \n\nLa Comisión viene abordando estos ejes de manera progresiva. Comenzó en septiembre escuchando a fiscales especializados en extinción de dominio de todo el país sobre los problemas encontrados en la práctica y los efectos de la reforma legislativa y de la sentencia del Tribunal Constitucional. \n\nA continuación, se está invitando a expertos nacionales e internacionales a examinar los distintos ejes temáticos, antes de que la Comisión pase a la etapa de deliberación y redacción legislativa. \n\n## El valor de un enfoque multidisciplinario y participativo\n\nEste enfoque resulta especialmente valioso porque muchas de las cuestiones que hoy se examinan en el Perú no son nuevas. \n\nLa autonomía del decomiso sin condena, su relación con el proceso penal, la retroactividad, el derecho de propiedad, los estándares probatorios y el debido proceso han sido históricamente algunos de los principales motivos por los que este tipo de sistemas ha sido cuestionado en todo el mundo. \n\nLo que hace singular la experiencia peruana es la posibilidad de observar estas cuestiones en tiempo real. En lugar de examinarlas de manera retrospectiva, la Comisión puede analizar cómo han surgido en un sistema maduro, escuchar a quienes han aplicado la ley, conocer distintas perspectivas jurídicas e institucionales y evaluar posibles soluciones mientras el propio marco normativo se encuentra en revisión.\n\nEn ese sentido, el Perú ofrece una oportunidad particularmente interesante para revisar en la práctica cuestiones que han acompañado al decomiso sin condena a nivel internacional durante décadas. Estas cuestiones son también centrales en el documento de trabajo del Instituto Working Paper 54: [Targeting illicit wealth through non-conviction based forfeiture: Identifying human rights and other standards for Latin America](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fwp-54) (disponible en inglés), que examina cómo conciliar la eficacia, los derechos humanos, las garantías procesales y los estándares internacionales en el diseño y la aplicación de estos mecanismos.\n\n## Una reforma a contrarreloj\n\nLa Comisión trabaja con un plazo excepcionalmente exigente. Dispone de solo tres meses para elaborar una propuesta integral sobre cuestiones que involucran derechos constitucionales, política criminal y la eficacia práctica de la recuperación de activos.\n\nLa brevedad del plazo responde a un sentido de urgencia deliberado. Tras meses en los que el proceso de reforma había quedado prácticamente paralizado, el Fiscal de la Nación, Tomás Gálvez, decidió ejercer su iniciativa legislativa para impulsarlo y alcanzar cuanto antes una propuesta viable. Mientras tanto, la criminalidad organizada y las economías ilícitas no se han detenido, y el Perú necesita un marco jurídico eficaz para perseguir los bienes que las sostienen.\n\nEsa urgencia se refleja también en la forma de trabajo de la Comisión. Sesiona dos veces por semana y reúne a fiscales especializados y a expertos nacionales e internacionales para examinar los cuatro ejes temáticos, contrastar distintos enfoques y construir consensos de manera progresiva. La metodología exige un intenso análisis jurídico y comparado, pero también la negociación entre distintas perspectivas institucionales en un plazo sumamente reducido.\n\nLa tarea es difícil precisamente porque ambas consideraciones son reales: la urgencia de fortalecer la respuesta del Perú frente a la criminalidad organizada y la necesidad de garantizar que el marco resultante sea constitucionalmente sólido, eficaz y sostenible.\n\n",{"id":5,"status":6,"user_created":37,"date_created":7,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":8,"title":9,"type":10,"body":11,"image":21,"date":12,"topic":13,"slug":14,"activity":13,"nid":13,"topics":96,"activities":13,"programme":13,"area":13,"websites":97,"translation_of":13,"language":19,"countries":98,"tags":99,"authors":100,"images":101,"translations":102,"content":103,"translations_news":104},[16],[18],[35],[42,43],[],[],[],[],[49],{},[],[108,163,202,240,273,310,339,374,402],{"id":109,"body":110,"status":6,"type":10,"date":111,"slug":112,"title":113,"image":114,"countries":115,"topic":13,"activity":13,"tags":121,"nid":13,"topics":140,"activities":13,"authors":141,"images":142,"websites":145,"area":13,"programme":13,"language":19,"translations":146,"translation_of":13,"user_created":147,"date_created":148,"user_updated":149,"date_updated":150,"content":151,"translations_news":152,"link":162},10658,"Cryptoassets are transforming the work of investigators, prosecutors and asset recovery specialists across Latin America. At a dedicated workshop in Luxembourg, more than 30 practitioners came together to share how they are responding to the challenge – with practical solutions, strong regional leadership and a readiness to learn from one another.\n\nThe [workshop](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fevents\u002Flatam-crypto-workshop\u002F) was co-organised by the Basel Institute on Governance and the UK National Crime Agency (NCA). It was hosted by Luxembourg’s Bureau de gestion des avoirs as a side event to the [10th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptoassets](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fevents\u002F10th-global-conference-on-criminal-finances-and-cryptoassets-2924\u002F).\n\nParticipants came from prosecution services, police forces, financial intelligence units, supervisory authorities and the judiciary. As members of the [Latin America Crypto Community of Practice](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fresources\u002Fcrypto-community-of-practice-latin-america\u002F), they share a determination to confront the rapid growth of cryptoassets and their exploitation by organised crime.\n\n## Regional leadership in action\n\nThe workshop placed the region’s own expertise at its centre. Practitioners from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Peru presented cases involving cryptoassets and asset recovery. They shared the approaches they had tested, the obstacles they had encountered and the lessons they had learned.\n\nThe discussions reflected the tremendous effort taking place across Latin America. Practitioners are tackling complex technical, legal and operational questions, often while the risks, technologies and criminal methods continue to evolve. \n\nMaria Cordeiro, Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery at the Basel Institute and coordinator of the Latin America Crypto Community of Practice, said:\n\n> The commitment and creativity of practitioners across Latin America are remarkable. They are not waiting for perfect laws, unlimited resources or ready-made solutions. They are getting to grips with difficult cases, testing practical approaches and helping one another move forward. That passion and leadership are exactly what this community is designed to support.\n\n## Working through shared challenges\n\nParticipants worked together on practical challenges related to the seizure, confiscation, custody, management and sale of cryptoassets.\n\nThe discussions were frank and focused on finding workable solutions. Held in Spanish and under the Chatham House rule, the workshop provided a trusted space in which practitioners could speak openly and learn from their peers.\n\nThe group also explored ways to strengthen cooperation against organised crime, illicit trafficking and other threats involving cryptoassets. These crimes operate across borders, making strong professional relationships and rapid information exchange essential.\n\nThe workshop was opened by Oscar Solórzano, Director for Latin America at the Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery. A representative of the UK National Crime Agency (NCA) co-moderated the session.\n\n## Partnerships and looking forward\n\nWe thank the NCA for co-organising the workshop under its Illicit Finance programme in Latin America and the Luxembourg Bureau de gestion des avoirs for hosting it so generously. \n\nWe are also grateful to the NCA, the US Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) in Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru, and the International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) in Colombia for funding the participation of practitioners in the workshop and the Global Conference.\n\nWe also thank current sponsors of our Latin America Crypto Community of Practice for their support for this practitioner-led exchange: [Kodex](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.kodexglobal.com), [Asset Reality](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.assetreality.com\u002F), [Tradias](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.tradias.de\u002F), [VerifyVASP](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.verifyvasp.com\u002Fen\u002F), [Inca Digital](https:\u002F\u002Finca.digital\u002F), [Coinbase](https:\u002F\u002Flogin.coinbase.com), [TRM Labs](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.trmlabs.com\u002F) and [CAT Labs](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.catlabs.io\u002F).\n\nThe workshop showed the value of bringing committed practitioners together around real cases and shared challenges. Discussions are already underway about a dedicated Latin America Crypto & Asset Recovery Conference in 2027.","2026-09-23","latin-america-crypto-workshop-news","Latin American practitioners join forces against evolving financial crime","https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fcms\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F0057f33d-7a2e-486e-9ae7-c67472380f8e?width=1000&height=650&format=webp&quality=90",[116,117,118,119,120],7839,7840,7841,7842,7843,[122,124,128,132,136],{"tags_id":123},{"id":69,"name":70},{"tags_id":125},{"id":126,"name":127},867,"Financial crime",{"tags_id":129},{"id":130,"name":131},967,"Organised crime",{"tags_id":133},{"id":134,"name":135},854,"Virtual assets",{"tags_id":137},{"id":138,"name":139},822,"International cooperation",[16],[],[143,144],301,302,[18],[],"97125d77-553b-478d-8c59-7064ee23cd96","2026-09-23T14:08:31.000Z","545a204d-e41b-4882-afda-481ecf3fd971","2026-09-23T16:18:18.000Z",[],[153,157],{"title":154,"body":155,"slug":156,"language":91},"Profesionales latinoamericanos unen fuerzas frente a una criminalidad financiera en constante evolución","Los criptoactivos están transformando el trabajo de investigadores, fiscales y especialistas en recuperación de activos en toda América Latina. En un taller especializado celebrado en Luxemburgo, más de 30 profesionales se reunieron para compartir cómo están respondiendo a este desafío: con soluciones prácticas, un sólido liderazgo regional y la disposición de aprender unos de otros.\n\nEl [taller](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fevents\u002Flatam-crypto-workshop\u002F) fue coorganizado por el Basel Institute on Governance y la Agencia Nacional contra el Crimen del Reino Unido (NCA, por sus siglas en inglés). Fue acogido por el Bureau de gestion des avoirs de Luxemburgo como evento paralelo a la [10.ª Conferencia Global sobre Finanzas Criminales y Criptoactivos](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fevents\u002F10th-global-conference-on-criminal-finances-and-cryptoassets-2924\u002F).\n\nLos participantes provenían de fiscalías, cuerpos policiales, unidades de inteligencia financiera, autoridades de supervisión y el poder judicial. Como miembros de la [Comunidad de Práctica sobre Criptoactivos para América Latina](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fresources\u002Fcrypto-community-of-practice-latin-america\u002F), comparten la determinación de hacer frente al rápido crecimiento de los criptoactivos y a su explotación por parte del crimen organizado.\n\n## Liderazgo regional en acción\n\nEl taller puso en el centro la experiencia de la propia región. Profesionales de Argentina, Brasil, Colombia y Perú presentaron casos relacionados con criptoactivos y recuperación de activos. Compartieron los enfoques que habían puesto a prueba, los obstáculos que habían encontrado y las lecciones aprendidas.\n\nLas discusiones reflejaron el enorme esfuerzo que se está realizando en toda América Latina. Los profesionales están abordando cuestiones técnicas, jurídicas y operativas complejas, a menudo mientras los riesgos, las tecnologías y los métodos delictivos siguen evolucionando. \n\nMaria Cordeiro, Especialista Sénior en Recuperación de Activos del Basel Institute y coordinadora de la Comunidad de Práctica sobre Criptoactivos para América Latina, afirmó:\n\n> El compromiso y la creatividad de los profesionales de toda América Latina son extraordinarios. No están esperando leyes perfectas, recursos ilimitados ni soluciones prefabricadas. Están enfrentando casos difíciles, poniendo a prueba enfoques prácticos y ayudándose mutuamente a avanzar. Esa pasión y ese liderazgo son precisamente lo que esta comunidad busca apoyar.\n\n## Enfrentando juntos desafíos comunes\n\nLos participantes trabajaron conjuntamente en desafíos prácticos relacionados con la incautación, el decomiso, la custodia, la administración y la venta de criptoactivos.\n\nLas discusiones fueron francas y se centraron en encontrar soluciones viables. Realizado en español y bajo la regla de Chatham House, el taller ofreció un espacio de confianza en el que los profesionales pudieron hablar abiertamente y aprender de sus pares.\n\nEl grupo también exploró formas de fortalecer la cooperación contra el crimen organizado, el tráfico ilícito y otras amenazas que involucran criptoactivos. Estos delitos traspasan fronteras, por lo que las relaciones profesionales sólidas y el intercambio ágil de información resultan esenciales.\n\nEl taller fue inaugurado por Oscar Solórzano, Director para América Latina del International Centre for Asset Recovery del Basel Institute. Una representante de la Agencia Nacional contra el Crimen (NCA) del Reino Unido, co-moderó la sesión.\n\n## Alianzas y próximos pasos\n\nAgradecemos a la NCA por coorganizar el taller en el marco de su programa de Finanzas Ilícitas en América Latina, y al Bureau de gestion des avoirs de Luxemburgo por su generosa acogida. \n\nAgradecemos también a la NCA, a la Oficina de Asuntos Antinarcóticos y Aplicación de la Ley (INL) de los Estados Unidos en Colombia, Ecuador, México y Perú, y al Programa Internacional de Asistencia y Capacitación en Investigación Criminal (ICITAP) en Colombia por financiar la participación de profesionales en el taller y en la Conferencia Global.\n\nAsimismo, agradecemos a los actuales patrocinadores de nuestra Comunidad de Práctica sobre Criptoactivos para América Latina por su apoyo a este intercambio liderado por profesionales: [Kodex](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.kodexglobal.com), [Asset Reality](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.assetreality.com\u002F), [Tradias](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.tradias.de\u002F), [VerifyVASP](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.verifyvasp.com\u002Fen\u002F), [Inca Digital](https:\u002F\u002Finca.digital\u002F), [Coinbase](https:\u002F\u002Flogin.coinbase.com), [TRM Labs](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.trmlabs.com\u002F) and [CAT Labs](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.catlabs.io\u002F).\n\nEl taller demostró el valor de reunir a profesionales comprometidos en torno a casos reales y desafíos compartidos. Ya se están llevando a cabo conversaciones sobre una Conferencia Latinoamericana de Criptoactivos y Recuperación de Activos, prevista para 2027.","latin-america-crypto-workshop-news-es",{"title":158,"body":159,"slug":160,"language":161},"Profissionais latino-americanos unem forças contra uma criminalidade financeira em constante evolução","Os criptoativos estão transformando o trabalho de investigadores, promotores e especialistas em recuperação de ativos em toda a América Latina. Em um workshop dedicado realizado em Luxemburgo, mais de 30 profissionais se reuniram para compartilhar como estão respondendo a esse desafio – com soluções práticas, uma liderança regional sólida e a disposição de aprender uns com os outros.\n\nO [workshop](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fevents\u002Flatam-crypto-workshop\u002F) foi coorganizado pelo Basel Institute on Governance e pela Agência Nacional de Combate ao Crime do Reino Unido (NCA, na sigla em inglês). O evento foi sediado pelo Bureau de gestion des avoirs de Luxemburgo como atividade paralela à [10ª Conferência Global sobre Finanças Criminosas e Criptoativos](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fevents\u002F10th-global-conference-on-criminal-finances-and-cryptoassets-2924\u002F).\n\nOs participantes vieram de ministérios públicos, forças policiais, unidades de inteligência financeira, autoridades de supervisão e do Poder Judiciário. Como membros da Comunidade de [Prática sobre Criptoativos para a América Latina](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fresources\u002Fcrypto-community-of-practice-latin-america\u002F), compartilham a determinação de enfrentar o rápido crescimento dos criptoativos e sua exploração pelo crime organizado.\n\n## Liderança regional em ação\n\nO workshop colocou no centro a experiência da própria região. Profissionais da Argentina, do Brasil, da Colômbia e do Peru apresentaram casos envolvendo criptoativos e recuperação de ativos. Compartilharam as abordagens que haviam testado, os obstáculos que haviam enfrentado e as lições aprendidas.\n\nAs discussões refletiram o enorme esforço em curso em toda a América Latina. Os profissionais estão lidando com questões técnicas, jurídicas e operacionais complexas, muitas vezes enquanto os riscos, as tecnologias e os métodos criminosos continuam a evoluir. \n\nMaria Cordeiro, Especialista Sênior em Recuperação de Ativos do Basel Institute e coordenadora da Comunidade de Prática sobre Criptoativos para a América Latina, afirmou:\n\n> O compromisso e a criatividade dos profissionais de toda a América Latina são notáveis. Eles não estão esperando por leis perfeitas, recursos ilimitados ou soluções prontas. Estão enfrentando casos difíceis, testando abordagens práticas e ajudando uns aos outros a avançar. Essa paixão e essa liderança são exatamente o que esta comunidade foi criada para apoiar.\n\n## Enfrentando juntos desafios comuns\n\nOs participantes trabalharam em conjunto sobre desafios práticos relacionados à apreensão, ao confisco, à custódia, à administração e à alienação de criptoativos.\n\nAs discussões foram francas e voltadas para a busca de soluções viáveis. Realizado em espanhol e sob a regra de Chatham House, o workshop ofereceu um espaço de confiança no qual os profissionais puderam falar abertamente e aprender com seus pares.\n\nO grupo também explorou formas de fortalecer a cooperação contra o crime organizado, o tráfico ilícito e outras ameaças envolvendo criptoativos. Esses crimes ultrapassam fronteiras, o que torna essenciais relações profissionais sólidas e um intercâmbio ágil de informações.\n\nO workshop foi aberto por Oscar Solórzano, Diretor para a América Latina do International Centre for Asset Recovery do Basel Institute. Uma representante da Agência Nacional de Combate ao Crime do Reino Unido (NCA), co-moderou a sessão.\n\n## Parcerias e próximos passos\n\nAgradecemos à NCA por coorganizar o workshop no âmbito de seu programa de Finanças Ilícitas na América Latina e ao Bureau de gestion des avoirs de Luxemburgo pela generosa acolhida. \n\nAgradecemos também à NCA, ao Escritório de Assuntos Internacionais de Narcóticos e Aplicação da Lei (INL) dos Estados Unidos na Colômbia, no Equador, no México e no Peru, e ao Programa Internacional de Assistência e Treinamento em Investigação Criminal (ICITAP) na Colômbia pelo financiamento da participação de profissionais no workshop e na Conferência Global.\n\nAgradecemos ainda aos atuais patrocinadores da nossa Comunidade de Prática sobre Criptoativos para a América Latina pelo apoio a este intercâmbio conduzido por profissionais: [Kodex](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.kodexglobal.com), [Asset Reality](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.assetreality.com\u002F), [Tradias](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.tradias.de\u002F), [VerifyVASP](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.verifyvasp.com\u002Fen\u002F), [Inca Digital](https:\u002F\u002Finca.digital\u002F), [Coinbase](https:\u002F\u002Flogin.coinbase.com), [TRM Labs](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.trmlabs.com\u002F) and [CAT Labs](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.catlabs.io\u002F).\n\nO workshop demonstrou o valor de reunir profissionais comprometidos em torno de casos reais e desafios compartilhados. Já estão em andamento conversas sobre uma Conferência Latino-Americana de Criptoativos e Recuperação de Ativos, prevista para 2027.\n","latin-america-crypto-workshop-news-pt","pt","\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Flatin-america-crypto-workshop-news",{"id":164,"body":165,"status":6,"type":10,"date":166,"slug":167,"title":168,"image":169,"countries":170,"topic":13,"activity":13,"tags":181,"nid":13,"topics":188,"activities":13,"authors":189,"images":190,"websites":195,"area":13,"programme":13,"language":19,"translations":196,"translation_of":13,"user_created":149,"date_created":197,"user_updated":149,"date_updated":198,"content":199,"translations_news":200,"link":201},10656,"Around 40 public-sector practitioners gathered in Luxembourg on 17 September 2026 for the [Africa Crypto & Asset Recovery Workshop](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fevents\u002Fafrica-crypto-workshop). The event put African experience, innovation and talent at the heart of discussions on cryptoasset investigations and asset recovery.\n\nHeld as a side event to the 10th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptoassets, the workshop brought together specialists from financial intelligence units, law enforcement agencies, prosecution authorities, regulators and asset recovery bodies. Participants represented more than 15 African countries.\n\nThe Basel Institute on Governance co-organised the workshop with the SecFin Africa. It was hosted by Luxembourg’s Bureau de gestion des avoirs.\n\n## Learning from African experience\n\nThe workshop was designed around peer learning. Practitioners from Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and South Africa presented real cases to their regional peers. They spoke openly about the obstacles they had encountered and the practical approaches they had developed to overcome them.\n\nThe workshop took place under the Chatham House rule. Participation was restricted to public-sector officials to provide a safe space for candid discussion, questions and learning.\n\nThis practitioner-led approach is central to the [Africa Crypto & Asset Recovery Network](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fresources\u002Fafrica-crypto-asset-recovery-network\u002F). The Network recognises that valuable expertise and creative solutions already exist across the continent. Its role is to help practitioners share this knowledge, learn from one another and build trusted relationships across institutions and borders.\n\nAs H.E. Ambassador Mary Chirwa, Ambassador of Zambia to the Benelux countries, said in her closing remarks at the main conference:\n\n> I can speak for Africa: it may not have the same resources as other regions, but it has large, young and technologically astute populations – quick to embrace new technologies, question established approaches and find imaginative solutions.\n\n## Practical tools and international cooperation\n\nThe workshop also introduced practical tools that can support investigations and asset recovery.\n\n-   Alexandru Donciu, Virtual Assets Specialist at the Basel Institute, demonstrated free and open-source tools for conducting on-chain investigations.\n-   A representative of the French Gendarmerie and France’s Agency for the Management and Recovery of Seized and Confiscated Assets (AGRASC) presented ASAC. The application guides magistrates and investigators through procedures for tracing, seizing and confiscating criminal assets.\n-   A Europol representative illuminated the work and approach of the European Financial and Economic Crime Centre and its collaborations with global law enforcement partners.\n\nThe contributions from international partners highlighted the importance of connecting strong regional networks across continents. Cryptoassets move globally and effective investigations depend on cooperation that does the same.\n\n## Connections that last beyond Luxembourg\n\nMany of the participants also attended the main Global Conference on 15–16 September. This gave the large African delegation opportunities to exchange experience with hundreds of peers from law enforcement, policymaking, research and the private sector.\n\nThese face-to-face connections matter. They build the trust that makes it easier to pick up the phone when an urgent cross-border case arises.\n\nOur sincere thanks go to SecFin Africa and to the workshop’s co-moderators, Philippe Pacaud, Operational Coordinator at SecFin Africa, and Simon Marsh, Head of Africa at the Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery.\n\nSecFin Africa is funded by the European Union, France and Germany. We also gratefully acknowledge the organisations supporting the Africa Crypto & Asset Recovery Network: [Kodex](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.kodexglobal.com\u002F), [Asset Reality](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.assetreality.com\u002F), [Tradias](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.tradias.de\u002F), [VerifyVASP](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.verifyvasp.com\u002Fen\u002F), [Coinbase](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.coinbase.com\u002Fhome), [TRM Labs](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.trmlabs.com\u002F), [CAT Labs](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.catlabs.io\u002F) and [iSanctuary](https:\u002F\u002Fisanctuary.io\u002F). Their support helps make this public-sector community and its activities possible while preserving a trusted and product-free space for practitioner exchange.\n\nThe enthusiasm in Luxembourg also raised an exciting possibility: a dedicated Africa Crypto & Asset Recovery Conference in 2027. Watch this space.","2026-09-21","africa-crypto-workshop","African expertise takes centre stage at crypto and asset recovery workshop","https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fcms\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F7070a0aa-a224-400b-b71a-a5c346808c2c?width=1000&height=650&format=webp&quality=90",[171,172,173,174,175,176,177,178,179,180],7828,7829,7830,7831,7832,7833,7834,7835,7836,7837,[182,184,186],{"tags_id":183},{"id":134,"name":135},{"tags_id":185},{"id":69,"name":70},{"tags_id":187},{"id":138,"name":139},[16],[],[191,192,193,194],296,297,299,300,[18],[],"2026-09-21T08:00:59.000Z","2026-09-22T16:43:36.000Z",[],[],"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fafrica-crypto-workshop",{"id":203,"body":204,"status":6,"type":10,"date":205,"slug":206,"title":207,"image":208,"countries":209,"topic":13,"activity":13,"tags":211,"nid":13,"topics":220,"activities":13,"authors":221,"images":222,"websites":232,"area":13,"programme":13,"language":19,"translations":233,"translation_of":13,"user_created":149,"date_created":234,"user_updated":235,"date_updated":236,"content":237,"translations_news":238,"link":239},10655,"Criminal use of cryptoassets is spreading across the threat landscape as these technologies become more accessible and integrated into global financial systems.\n\nBut this pressure is also accelerating innovation and collaboration among those fighting back – across law enforcement, industry, research and policy.\n\nThe strength of that combined response was on show at the 10th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptoassets on 15–16 September 2026.\n\nCo-organised by [Europol](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.europol.europa.eu\u002F), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ([UNODC](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.unodc.org\u002F)) and the Basel Institute on Governance and hosted this year by Luxembourg’s [Bureau de gestion des avoirs (BGA)](https:\u002F\u002Fbga.gouvernement.lu\u002Ffr.html), the conference brought 450 specialists from nearly 90 jurisdictions to the European Convention Center Luxembourg. More than 2,000 people registered online. \n\nIker Lekuona, Director of the Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery and co-chair of the conference’s first day, said:\n\n> We are proud to help bring together such an impressive community of experienced and emerging experts from the public and private sectors, representing so many countries and backgrounds. The energy was palpable. It will help spread and scale the effective tools and approaches shared here, and drive progress on common standards and innovative models of law enforcement and public-private cooperation. \n\n## Innovation on show\n\nCases presented at the conference illustrated how cryptoassets now feature in cyber attacks, sanctions evasion, terrorist financing, sabotage and political interference. Other sessions exposed the human cost of scams, trafficking and “wrench attacks”, in which criminals use violence to force cryptoasset transfers.\n\nYet the sessions also showcased new ways in which authorities and their partners are responding.\n\nThe hybrid conference – with the second day reserved for public authorities – showcased:\n\n-   **Advanced tools and techniques** for identifying, tracing and seizing illicit cryptoassets, and for dismantling the criminal and money laundering networks behind them.\n-   **Cross-border cooperation** that is enabling authorities to identify, freeze and secure cryptoassets before they can be moved beyond reach.\n-   **New public-private partnerships** for sharing operational intelligence on active cases, as well as strategic intelligence on emerging threats and indicators that can help others detect similar activity.\n- **New legal powers, procedures and technologies** for securing and managing seized cryptoassets and preserving their value through to final recovery and return to victims or the state.\n\nSeveral of these advances can benefit cases that do not involve cryptoassets. Network analysis, faster intelligence-sharing and closer coordination between investigators, prosecutors and asset recovery specialists can strengthen wider financial investigations and asset recovery efforts.\n\n## Collaboration builds trust\n\nThe conference also marked an important step in efforts to develop common baseline standards for blockchain intelligence.\n\nA technical breakout brought together representatives of blockchain analytics providers, law enforcement agencies and research organisations. Participants explored how common terminology, data formats and analytical approaches could make blockchain intelligence more consistent and interoperable.\n\nThis matters because investigators, prosecutors, financial institutions, crypto exchanges, regulators and supervisors increasingly rely on the information these tools produce. Clearer standards can support more consistent customer due diligence and more reliable investigative leads. They can also help ensure that evidence can be explained, challenged and tested in court.\n\nA separate breakout led by the [Wolfsberg Group](https:\u002F\u002Fwolfsberg-group.org\u002F) examined common problems in suspicious transaction reporting involving cryptoassets. Financial institutions, cryptoasset service providers and public authorities discussed how to make reports more consistent, efficient and useful to investigators.\n\nThe sessions demonstrated that collaboration goes beyond individual cases. It also means building shared standards and systems that can strengthen broader efforts against crimes involving crypto.\n\nOn the subject of trust and collaboration, H.E. Ambassador Mary Chirwa of Zambia, added in her closing remarks:\n\n> Virtual participation greatly expands access, but meeting in person remains essential to building trust. When an urgent cross-border case arises, it helps enormously if the person receiving the call is someone you have already met.\n\n## Progress, but no room for complacency\n\nSignificant blind spots remain. Criminal methods continue to evolve fast, regulation and enforcement remain uneven, and many authorities still lack the skills, tools or legal powers they need.\n\nBut the cases presented on the conference stage and the solutions explored in its breakout rooms showed that authorities and their partners are already adapting their tools and working methods.\n\nThe priority now is to scale what works: expand trusted regional and international networks, agree common standards, invest in practical capacity building and make effective models of public-private cooperation easier to replicate.\n\n## About the conference\n\nThe 10th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptoassets took place on 15–16 September 2026 at the European Convention Center Luxembourg and online.\n\nThree side events on 17 September will deepen the practical discussions:\n\n-   A hybrid [Cryptoasset Management Roundtable](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fevents\u002Fcryptoasset-management-roundtable-side-event-to-the-10th-global-conference-2956\u002F), co-organised by Luxembourg’s BGA and the Basel Institute, will bring together specialist asset management and recovery professionals to share insights and co-develop guidance on the effective management and liquidation of cryptoassets.\n-   A [workshop for African public-sector authorities](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fevents\u002Fafrica-crypto-workshop) will see more than 40 practitioners from 18 African countries exchanging cases, typologies and practical approaches with their peers. The workshop is a collaboration of the Basel Institute-led Africa Crypto & Asset Recovery Network and the SecFin Africa project, co-financed by the European Union.\n-   A parallel [Latin America Crypto & Asset Recovery Workshop](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fevents\u002Flatam-crypto-workshop), co-organised by the Basel Institute and the UK National Crime Agency under its Illicit Finance project, will provide a similar space for around 30 practitioners from 10 countries across Latin America.\n\nLearn more about the conference and access publicly available breakout summaries and recordings at: [baselgovernance.org\u002F10crc](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fevents\u002F10th-global-conference-on-criminal-finances-and-cryptoassets-2924).\n\n[Photos](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.linkedin.com\u002Fposts\u002Fbasel-institute_%F0%9D%90%80-%F0%9D%90%A6%F0%9D%90%A2%F0%9D%90%A5%F0%9D%90%9E%F0%9D%90%AC%F0%9D%90%AD%F0%9D%90%A8%F0%9D%90%A7%F0%9D%90%9E-10%F0%9D%90%AD%F0%9D%90%A1-%F0%9D%90%9E%F0%9D%90%9D%F0%9D%90%A2%F0%9D%90%AD%F0%9D%90%A2%F0%9D%90%A8-activity-7506000453588041729--aFt): Neumann Jérôme Photography.","2026-09-16","10th-crypto-conference","New tools and partnerships strengthen the response to criminal use of cryptoassets","https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fcms\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F0dac2858-a3e5-4bc2-a784-a50208f54f4b?width=1000&height=650&format=webp&quality=90",[210],7827,[212,214,218],{"tags_id":213},{"id":134,"name":135},{"tags_id":215},{"id":216,"name":217},818,"Anti-money laundering",{"tags_id":219},{"id":138,"name":139},[16],[],[223,224,49,225,226,227,228,229,230,231],8,9,11,12,13,14,16,17,18,[18],[],"2026-09-15T10:27:16.000Z","b0662e2a-864d-4888-a1b7-4342b7570b30","2026-09-18T13:45:49.000Z",[],[],"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002F10th-crypto-conference",{"id":241,"body":242,"status":6,"type":243,"date":244,"slug":245,"title":246,"image":247,"countries":248,"topic":13,"activity":13,"tags":249,"nid":13,"topics":262,"activities":13,"authors":264,"images":265,"websites":266,"area":13,"programme":13,"language":19,"translations":267,"translation_of":13,"user_created":37,"date_created":268,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":269,"content":270,"translations_news":271,"link":272},10649,"*\"I wanted to have more impact in helping my country prevent and combat money laundering.\" In her role as an Anti-Money Laundering Analyst at a commercial bank, Hortensia Uupindi felt that something was missing. After reporting suspicious transactions, she could not see what happened next. This curiosity evolved into a career objective: to transition into a role where she could take a more active part in combating financial crime and safeguarding the integrity of the financial system.*\n\n*With this in mind, she decided to enrol in the postgraduate programme \"[CAS Combating Financial Crime Through Asset Recovery](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fbasel-study\u002Fcas-asset-recovery)\", delivered by the Basel Institute on Governance together with the [University of Basel](https:\u002F\u002Fadvancedstudies.unibas.ch\u002Fstudienangebot\u002Fkurs\u002Fcas-combating-financial-crime-through-asset-recovery-300795).*\n\n*In this interview, she shares her experience on taking the course, the ways it contributed to her professional growth and how it helped her transition into her current role at the Financial Intelligence Unit of Namibia.*\n\n**You were working in the compliance department at a commercial bank. What motivated you to take this programme?**\n\nWorking as an Anti-Money Laundering Analyst really opened my eyes to money laundering and its links to real-world financial crimes. Like many countries, Namibia also faces ongoing challenges with predicate offences such as corruption, fraud and tax evasion.\n\nAt the bank, whenever we identified suspicious behaviour, we reported it to the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). But we did not get to see what happened after that. At that time, I was familiar with the term “asset recovery”, but I did not understand how the entire value chain worked, with all its processes and challenges.\n\nJoining the FIU had always been one of my career aspirations. I was eager to learn more about asset recovery and strengthen my ability to contribute to my country's efforts to prevent and combat money laundering. The programme immediately caught my interest, and I knew it was an opportunity I could not miss. A few months ago, I successfully transitioned into my new role as a Compliance Analyst at the Namibian FIU.\n\n**What change in perspective did this programme bring to your professional career?**\n\nThe course helped me understand the whole asset recovery process and the role I am playing in combating financial crime. It also showed me how to come up with solutions to resolve some of the challenges that slow the process down. \n\nThat understanding made me appreciate the work I do on a daily basis even more. The aim is to prevent money laundering, but when an offence has already occurred, we want to recover those assets because they are proceeds of crime and make sure they are reinvested for public good. \n\nThe [Fishrot case in Namibia](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bbc.com\u002Fnews\u002Fworld-africa-64526018) is a clear example of why asset recovery is so important. The funds that were misappropriated could have been used to support education, infrastructure and social development initiatives that would benefit the wider population. Instead, they enriched only a select few individuals. Recovering these assets would make a significant contribution to Namibia’s economy and development. \n\nThe diversity of the cohort was another important highlight of the programme. I came from a banking background, but we had people from FIUs, anti-corruption agencies, asset management units and other areas. We could see how our different roles connect along the asset recovery chain.  \n\nAll in all, the programme changed my perspective because it gave me a balance between where I was and where I wanted to be.  \n\n**What was a highlight of the programme for you?**  \n\nThere were many, both in terms of the content and the career opportunities. \n\nI particularly valued learning about international anti-money laundering frameworks and laws governing offences such as corruption and bribery. It enhanced my understanding of how illicit assets are acquired, as well as techniques for identifying and tracing them, before they are frozen, confiscated, recovered and re-used. \n\nCareer-wise, the programme expanded my horizons. Before, I didn’t know there were so many career opportunities in the anti-financial crime sector. The lecturers and speakers showed us the diversity in this space. \n\n**You were able to join the programme thanks to the [Gretta Fenner Scholarship Fund](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fbasel-study\u002Fscholarship). What did this support mean to you?**\n\nI was fascinated by the programme until I saw the tuition fees. I couldn’t afford to pay for it in full. Then I saw that a scholarship fund was available, so I applied for both the programme and financial support. \n\nBeing one of the recipients of partial financial support was a blessing. The course came at the perfect time in my career, equipping me with valuable knowledge and practical skills that have strengthened my professional capabilities.\n\nI would really encourage individual donors and organisations to [continue supporting the scholarship fund](https:\u002F\u002Fwhydonate.com\u002Ffundraising\u002Fgretta-fenner-scholarship-fund). Capacity building is important, because it's only when skilled people are at the forefront of countering financial crime that a real difference can be made to society.\n\n**What would you say to other professionals, including those in the private sector, who are unsure whether the programme is worth it?** \n\nThe programme is worthwhile. It has a structure that you don’t often find: a mix of practical experience and deep knowledge, combining lectures with real-world experience. \n\nIt is beneficial for colleagues who already work in this field, but we also had classmates from other fields who are aspiring to enter the sector. It is friendly both for beginners and experienced professionals. \n\nThe Basel Institute demonstrated a high level of professionalism throughout the programme. The lecturers were highly knowledgeable and generous in sharing their expertise. They consistently took the time to address our questions and brought in professionals from various sectors to provide additional insights.\n\nThis programme truly has equipped us to play our part in the fight against financial crime. For anyone contemplating, it is truly a worthwhile opportunity.  \n\n**Thank you, Hortensia, for sharing your story and highlighting the impact this postgraduate programme has had on your professional journey.**\n\n## Learn more\n\n::: links\n- [Discover “Combating Financial Crime Through Asset Recovery”](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fbasel-study\u002Fcas-asset-recovery) -> Postgraduate programme delivered online in partnership with the University of Basel.\n- [Contribute to the Gretta Fenner Scholarship Fund](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fbasel-study\u002Fscholarship) -> Help train the next generation of anti-corruption professionals.\n- [Discover our offer of short online training courses](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fcourses) -> Practitioner-led training focused on real-world financial crime challenges. \n:::\n","Blog","2026-08-11","alumni-stories-hortensia-uupindi","From private sector compliance to a Financial Intelligence Unit: how specialised education supported this shift","https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fcms\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F0091c995-8268-4d1a-8aef-f4567d38c717?width=1000&height=650&format=webp&quality=90",[],[250,252,254,258],{"tags_id":251},{"id":216,"name":217},{"tags_id":253},{"id":69,"name":70},{"tags_id":255},{"id":256,"name":257},1300,"Education",{"tags_id":259},{"id":260,"name":261},1393,"Alumni stories",[16,263],"Learning and training",[],[],[18],[],"2026-08-12T08:53:12.000Z","2026-08-12T09:31:20.000Z",[],[],"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Falumni-stories-hortensia-uupindi",{"id":274,"body":275,"status":6,"type":243,"date":276,"slug":277,"title":278,"image":279,"countries":280,"topic":13,"activity":13,"tags":281,"nid":13,"topics":296,"activities":13,"authors":297,"images":298,"websites":299,"area":13,"programme":13,"language":19,"translations":300,"translation_of":13,"user_created":37,"date_created":301,"user_updated":37,"date_updated":302,"content":303,"translations_news":304,"link":309},10648,"*“When it comes to economic crime, securing a conviction is not always enough. If we do not recover the assets, we are not returning to society what was stolen from it.” This realisation marked a turning point in the career of Julio Petrucci, a prosecutor at the Attorney General’s Office of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.*\n\n*Driven by this mindset and by his desire to keep pace with the way crime operates today, Petrucci decided to enrol in the postgraduate programme “[CAS Combating Financial Crime Through Asset Recovery](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fbasel-study\u002Fcas-asset-recovery)” delivered by the Basel Institute on Governance together with the [University of Basel](https:\u002F\u002Fadvancedstudies.unibas.ch\u002Fstudienangebot\u002Fkurs\u002Fcas-combating-financial-crime-through-asset-recovery-300795).*\n\n*In this interview, he tells us about the challenges of his work, the issues demanding greater specialisation and the advice he has for other public servants who, like him, are striving to serve their citizens better.*\n\n**A prosecutor’s work requires constant adaptation. What motivates your daily work and what challenges do you face?**\n\nMy main motivation is to try to do good and to help repair what is broken in society when a crime is committed.\n\nIn my country, as well as across the region, there are many economic difficulties and high levels of social inequality. Many people who become victims of crime rely on the Public Prosecutor's Office and other public institutions for support. As a prosecutor, I want to be able to provide these victims with answers and practical tools.\n\nOver time, I began to realise that my initial training was largely focused on crime in traditional, physical settings. However, crime scenes are often digital or have a strong financial component.\n\nThat's when I identified the need to look for new tools to strengthen my investigations. It was through this search that I discovered the Basel Institute on Governance and its [educational programmes](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning).\n\n**Why did you choose the Basel Institute programme to specialise in asset recovery?**\n\nI was particularly interested in the specialised programme on asset recovery for three reasons:\n\n-\tfirst, because asset recovery is a highly relevant and rapidly growing field;\n-\tsecond, because I could not find other advanced courses offering this level of specialisation in countering financial crime;\n-\tand third, because of the international reputation of the Basel Institute on Governance and the University of Basel.\n\n![](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fcms\u002Fassets\u002F1fa76298-84af-47af-852f-e5ec0bced22b)\n\n**What change in perspective did this programme bring to your professional career?**\n\nThe course marked a before and after in my career.\n\nIn Argentina, asset recovery is still a developing field. Historically, we have analysed criminal cases with the aim of securing convictions. However, when it comes to economic crime, securing a conviction is not always enough. If we do not recover the assets, we are not returning to society what was stolen from it.\n\nThroughout the course, I learned not only about the different legal frameworks that exist around the world in this area, but also how to apply them to specific cases. The academic team and the online learning platforms were excellent. All this new knowledge and practical tools are already proving extremely useful in my day-to-day work. They have even contributed to my professional growth in ways that I am not yet able to comment on officially.\n\nThis was also my first international experience. I got to meet people from different countries and professional backgrounds, which was very enriching.\n\n**You were able to join the programme thanks to a scholarship. What did this support mean to you?**\n\nI am a public official in a country facing significant economic challenges. The salaries of public officials like me, both in Argentina and across Latin America, are not particularly high.\n\nIn this context, I saw that the Basel Institute offered financial support through the [Gretta Fenner Scholarship Fund](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fbasel-study\u002Fscholarship) and decided to apply for it. From the outset, the team was very receptive. After some interviews, I was awarded a partial scholarship thanks to the funds they had raised, which allowed me to take the course.\n\nTo donors and benefactors, I would say that their contribution is not just individual support for a student: it is a direct investment in justice systems in our countries. Thanks to their contribution, I now have the tools to investigate complex crimes and recover assets that belong to society.\n\n**Why would you recommend this training to other prosecutors or investigators in the region?**\n\nWhen you work in public service, and especially in a role such as that of a prosecutor, it is very difficult to look beyond what you see in your daily work. But crime is changing. In fact, it has already changed, and if we do not adapt, we will not be able to do our jobs effectively or help repair what is broken in society when a crime is committed.\n\nFor this reason, I encourage prosecutors and others interested in tackling financial crime to step outside their day-to-day routine and take courses like this.\n\nI highly recommend this programme to them, not only because of its academic quality but also because of the quality and dedication of the Basel Institute team. It was an incredible experience.\n\n**Thank you, Julio, for sharing your story and highlighting the impact this postgraduate programme has had on your professional journey.**\n\n*Julio Petrucci is just one of many talented professionals who have been able to take this course thanks to the Gretta Fenner Scholarship Fund. We are deeply grateful to all those who have generously contributed, and continue to contribute, to this fund, especially the [International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators](https:\u002F\u002Ffinancialcrimelitigators.org\u002F), [Bonifassi Avocats](https:\u002F\u002Fbonifassi-avocats.com\u002Fen\u002F), [Bennett Jones](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bennettjones.com\u002F), [ECO Strategic Communications](https:\u002F\u002Fecostrats.com\u002F) and [Kellerhals Carrard](https:\u002F\u002Fkellerhals-carrard.ch\u002Fen).*\n\n## Learn more\n\n::: links\n- [Discover “Combating Financial Crime Through Asset Recovery”](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fbasel-study\u002Fcas-asset-recovery) -> Postgraduate programme delivered online in partnership with the University of Basel.\n- [Contribute to the Gretta Fenner Scholarship Fund](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fbasel-study\u002Fscholarship) -> Help train the next generation of anti-corruption professionals.\n- [Discover our offer of short online training courses](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fcourses) -> Practitioner-led training focused on real-world financial crime challenges. \n:::\n","2026-08-05","alumni-stories-julio-petrucci","Specialising in asset recovery: why this Argentinian prosecutor decided to take the leap ","https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fcms\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F4cb78426-7f7f-44a1-9709-552b2f2f259e?width=1000&height=650&format=webp&quality=90",[],[282,286,288,292,294],{"tags_id":283},{"id":284,"name":285},1193,"Financial investigations",{"tags_id":287},{"id":256,"name":257},{"tags_id":289},{"id":290,"name":291},1374,"Law enforcement",{"tags_id":293},{"id":69,"name":70},{"tags_id":295},{"id":260,"name":261},[16,263],[],[],[18],[],"2026-08-05T06:34:24.000Z","2026-08-31T13:54:16.000Z",[],[305],{"title":306,"body":307,"slug":308,"language":91},"Especializarse en recuperación de activos: por qué este fiscal argentino decidió dar el salto","*“Cuando hablamos de delitos económicos, condenar a una persona no siempre es suficiente. Si no recuperamos los activos, no estamos devolviendo a la sociedad aquello que le fue robado.” Esta convicción marcó un punto de inflexión en la carrera de Julio Petrucci, fiscal de la Procuración General de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.*\n\n*Motivado por ella y por estar a la par de cómo opera el crimen en la actualidad, decidió tomar el programa de postgrado \"[CAS Combating Financial Crime Through Asset Recovery](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fbasel-study\u002Fcas-asset-recovery)\", dictado por el Basel Institute on Governance junto a la [Universidad de Basilea](https:\u002F\u002Fadvancedstudies.unibas.ch\u002Fstudienangebot\u002Fkurs\u002Fcas-combating-financial-crime-through-asset-recovery-300795).*\n\n*En esta entrevista, conversamos sobre los desafíos de su trabajo, los problemas que están requiriendo una mayor especialización y la recomendación que les da a otros trabajadores públicos que, como él, buscan servir mejor a los ciudadanos.*\n\n**El trabajo de fiscal exige una constante adaptación. ¿Cuál es la motivación detrás de tu labor diaria y a qué desafíos te enfrentas?**\n\nMi principal motivación es tratar de hacer el bien y de recomponer eso que se rompe en la sociedad cuando se comete un delito. \n\nEn mi país, así como en la región, existen muchas dificultades económicas y una gran desigualdad social. Esto significa que hay muchas personas que, cuando sufre un delito, deben recurrir al Ministerio Público Fiscal y a los organismos públicos. Como fiscal, quiero poder darles respuestas y herramientas concretas.  \n\nCon el tiempo empecé a notar que mi formación inicial estaba muy enfocada en el crimen en escenarios físicos tradicionales. Sin embargo, muchas veces el escenario del crimen es digital o tiene un fuerte componente financiero. \n\nDesde entonces, identifiqué la necesidad de buscar nuevas herramientas para abordar mis investigaciones. Fue en esa búsqueda que conocí al Basel Institute on Governance y [toda su oferta educativa](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning). \n\n**¿Por qué elegiste el programa del Basel Institute para especializarte en recuperación de activos?**\n\nParticularmente me interesó el programa especializado en la recuperación de activos por tres razones: \n\n-\tprimero, porque la recuperación de activos es una temática muy pujante y de creciente importancia; \n-\tsegundo, porque no encontré otras ofertas educativas similares con este nivel de especialización en crimen financiero; \n-\ty tercero, por el prestigio internacional del Basel Institute on Governance y la Universidad de Basilea.\n\n![](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fcms\u002Fassets\u002F1fa76298-84af-47af-852f-e5ec0bced22b)\n\n**¿Qué cambio de paradigma aportó esta formación a tu carrera profesional?**\n\nEl curso significó un antes y un después en mi carrera.\n\nEn Argentina, la materia de recuperación de activos está en pleno desarrollo. Históricamente, analizamos los casos criminales con el objetivo de obtener condenas. Sin embargo, cuando hablamos de delitos económicos, condenar a una persona no siempre es suficiente. Si no recuperamos los activos, no estamos devolviendo a la sociedad aquello que le fue robado.\n\nDurante el curso, aprendí no solamente sobre los distintos marcos legales que existen a nivel mundial en la materia, sino también cómo utilizarlos en casos concretos. El personal académico y el material del campus virtual fueron también excelentes. \n\nTodas esas herramientas me están sirviendo mucho en el día a día en mi trabajo. Inclusive ya me permitieron un crecimiento dentro de mi carrera profesional que aún no puedo comentar de manera oficial.\n\nAdemás, fue mi primera experiencia internacional. Conocí gente de distintos países y de distintos ámbitos, lo cual fue muy enriquecedor.\n\n**Pudiste unirte a este programa gracias a una beca. ¿Qué significó este apoyo para ti?**\n\nYo soy funcionario público de un país con grandes desafíos económicos. Los salarios de los funcionarios como yo, tanto en Argentina como en Latinoamérica, no son los más elevados.\n\nEn ese contexto, vi que el Basel Institute ofrecía apoyo financiero a través del [Gretta Fenner Scholarship Fund](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fbasel-study\u002Fscholarship), así que postulé. Desde un primer momento, el equipo fue muy receptivo. Tuvimos algunas entrevistas y, gracias a los fondos que habían logrado recaudar, pude obtener una beca parcial que me permitió tomar el curso.\n\nA los donantes y benefactores les diría que su aporte no es solo una ayuda individual para un estudiante: es una inversión directa en la justicia de nuestros países. Gracias a su contribución, hoy cuento con herramientas de vanguardia para investigar delitos complejos y recuperar activos que pertenecen a la sociedad.\n\n**¿Por qué le recomendarías esta capacitación a otros fiscales o investigadores de la región?**\n\nCuando uno está en la función pública, y sobre todo en un puesto como el de fiscal, es muy difícil mirar más allá, a lo que uno no ve en el día a día. Pero el delito está mutanto. De hecho, ya mutó, y si no nos adaptamos, no vamos a poder hacer bien nuestro trabajo ni devolverle a la sociedad eso que se rompe cuando se comete un delito.\n\nEntonces, yo les diría a ellos, y a todos interesados en combatir el crimen financiero, que se animen a salir un poco de ese día a día y a tomar cursos como estos. \n\nLes recomiendo ampliamente este programa, no solamente por la calidad académica, sino también por la calidad humana del equipo del Basel Institute. Fue una experiencia increíble. \n\n**Gracias, Julio, por compartir tu experiencia y el impacto que ha tenido este programa de postgrado en tu carrera.**\n\n*Julio Petrucci es solo uno de los talentosos profesionales que han podido cursar este programa de postgrado gracias al Gretta Fenner Scholarship Fund. Agradecemos profundamente a todos quienes han aportado, y siguen aportando generosamente, a este fondo, especialmente a [International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators](https:\u002F\u002Ffinancialcrimelitigators.org\u002F), [Bonifassi Avocats](https:\u002F\u002Fbonifassi-avocats.com\u002Fen\u002F), [Bennett Jones](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bennettjones.com\u002F), [ECO Strategic Communications](https:\u002F\u002Fecostrats.com\u002F) y [Kellerhals Carrard](https:\u002F\u002Fkellerhals-carrard.ch\u002Fen).*\n\n## Más información\n\n::: links\n- [Conoce el postgrado “Combating Financial Crime Through Asset Recovery”](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fbasel-study\u002Fcas-asset-recovery) -> Programa de postgrado dictado junto con la Universidad de Basilea. \n- [Haz tu donación al Gretta Fenner Scholarship Fund](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fbasel-study\u002Fscholarship) -> Ayúdanos a capacitar a la nueva generación de profesionales que luchan contra la corrupción. \n- [Conoce nuestra oferta online de cursos de capacitación](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fcourses) -> Capacitación enfocada en los desafíos que presenta el crimen financiero, dictada por profesionales del sector.\n:::\n","historias-de-egresados-julio-petrucci","\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Falumni-stories-julio-petrucci",{"id":311,"body":312,"status":6,"type":10,"date":313,"slug":314,"title":315,"image":316,"countries":317,"topic":13,"activity":13,"tags":318,"nid":13,"topics":329,"activities":13,"authors":330,"images":331,"websites":332,"area":13,"programme":13,"language":19,"translations":333,"translation_of":13,"user_created":37,"date_created":334,"user_updated":235,"date_updated":335,"content":336,"translations_news":337,"link":338},10647,"How and where can a professional acquire specialised knowledge in asset recovery? A year ago, that question didn’t have an easy answer. Today, it does: with the postgraduate programme \"[CAS Combating Financial Crime Through Asset Recovery](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fbasel-study\u002Fcas-asset-recovery)\", offered by the Basel Institute on Governance and the University of Basel. \n\nThis July, we were delighted to welcome the first cohort to our headquarters in Basel and host the 1.5-day hybrid closing event. \n\nHere are a few highlights from the programme, and what participants themselves had to say about their experience.\n\n## A programme unique in its class\n\nThis Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) was developed to address a longstanding gap in postgraduate education. While aspects of asset recovery are covered in some university courses, there has until now been no similar qualification combining academic learning with practical skills.\n\nThe programme draws on more than two decades of experience from our [International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR)](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fwork\u002Fenforcement), which has worked with authorities around the world to strengthen financial investigations, asset recovery and international cooperation.\n\nGraduates receive a CAS degree from the [University of Basel](https:\u002F\u002Fadvancedstudies.unibas.ch\u002Fstudienangebot\u002Fkurs\u002Fcas-combating-financial-crime-through-asset-recovery-300795), one of Switzerland's leading universities. \n\n## A global classroom\n\nThe first cohort brought together prosecutors, investigators, lawyers, anti-money laundering specialists, development practitioners, bankers and policy professionals from 10 countries across Africa, South America, Asia and Europe.\n\nThe online format with live sessions helped make that possible. It gave participants the flexibility to join from anywhere in the world and balance the course with their day-to-day work – and, just as importantly, to connect with peers working under completely different legal systems. That’s exactly the kind of contact that matters for international cooperation.\n\n![](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fcms\u002Fassets\u002F50c4e6ce-a88b-4d8f-8703-ed2a39ed1bea)\n\nAs one participant from Europe explained: \n\n> The exchange with other participants working in different jurisdictions was extremely valuable. That was crucial for seeing how asset recovery is approached differently elsewhere, and what options other jurisdictions have. Asset recovery is a global issue now – money moves across the world, so you can't just sit in your office thinking everything stops at the border.\n\nThe cohort also spanned different levels of expertise, from prosecutors to lawyers working in cybercrime to people just entering the field. As another participant, who works in development cooperation, explains:\n\n> After having worked for two decades in development cooperation, I realised that if less money was lost to financial crime, countries could decide more autonomously where to invest in their own development. So I got interested in the topic of money laundering, and how we could get better at fighting it.\n\n## Learning by doing\n\nWhen we asked participants what they found most valuable or unique about the programme, the answer was always the same: its practical approach. \n\nAsset recovery is a complex discipline that spans financial investigations, international cooperation, prosecution and the management and return of confiscated assets. Professionals working in this field need not only legal knowledge, but the practical skills that can be applied across different jurisdictions and institutional settings.\n\nOver six months, the cohort engaged in interactive online sessions built around real cases and realistic simulated investigation exercises, guided by practitioners who have investigated and prosecuted financial crime themselves.\n\nA participant from Uruguay explains:\n\n> In most certifications, the focus tends to stay on theory and definitions, spending a lot of time discussing ethical and regulatory issues. But in this case, it was so case-specific and applied that by the end, you know what you have to do, you know how to investigate and you know the steps for asset recovery.\n\n## The final project: a professional opportunity\n\nThat practical focus culminates in the personal project each participant is now completing in order to graduate: a chance to advance a project from their own work, a side interest or simply an area they want to explore in more depth.\n\nOne participant is taking the programme to build up a specialised Asset Recovery Office within the Ministry of Justice. It tackles the problem that currently, competence is split between the prosecutor's office and the police, and neither magistrates nor police officers have the same view of the data. \n\nAnother participant is working on a proposal to bring public-private collaboration to her country's asset recovery efforts. She noticed a clear gap: information that should flow between the two sectors simply wasn't being exchanged. Throughout the programme, she tested her model with instructors, refining it with their feedback. Her final project now sets out how that collaboration could actually work in practice.\n\n## Discussing future career steps \n\nThe closing event was also a chance to look ahead to the careers and opportunities this certificate can open. An exclusive panel discussion showcased the breadth of career paths in combating financial crime, bringing together experts from international organisations, the public sector and private industry. \n\nThe panel featured Kodjo Attisso (Coordinator of the Illicit Finance Fusion Center – Africa at UNODC), Federica Maschera (Group Financial Crime Engagement Manager at HSBC Holdings plc), Pedro Gomes Pereira (Advisor on Anti-Corruption and Asset Recovery) and Maria Schnebli (Federal Prosecutor at the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland).\n\nThe panellists shared their career paths and challenges in the various sectors, and the steps they took to get to their current affiliations. \n\n![](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fcms\u002Fassets\u002F3435a2ff-4289-497f-aab5-ba2e4b8c1526)\n\nMaria Schnebli also gave a keynote speech on international collaboration and the challenges of combating financial crime from a Swiss prosecutor's perspective. This tied in perfectly with the work the students had done throughout the course.\n\n## The Gretta Fenner Scholarship Fund\n\nSome students in this cohort could only take the course thanks to financial support. We launched the [Gretta Fenner Scholarship Fund](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fbasel-study\u002Fscholarship) to help cover tuition costs for talented professionals from low-income backgrounds.\n\nWe have received, and continue to receive, generous donations from organisations and individuals alike. \n\nJulio Petrucci, a prosecutor at the Attorney General's Office of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, was one of the participants who benefited. As he puts it: \n\n> To donors and benefactors, I would say that your contribution isn't just individual support for one student – it's a direct investment in justice across our countries. Thanks to your contribution, I now have the tools to investigate complex crimes and recover assets that belong to society.\n\n![](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fcms\u002Fassets\u002F1fa76298-84af-47af-852f-e5ec0bced22b)\n\nWe are deeply grateful to our donors for making these opportunities possible, especially the [International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators](https:\u002F\u002Ffinancialcrimelitigators.org\u002F), [Bonifassi Avocats](https:\u002F\u002Fbonifassi-avocats.com\u002Fen\u002F), [Bennett Jones](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bennettjones.com\u002F), [ECO Strategic Communications](https:\u002F\u002Fecostrats.com\u002F) and [Kellerhals Carrard](https:\u002F\u002Fkellerhals-carrard.ch\u002Fen).\n\n## Another way to build capacity\n\nAs the first cohort prepares to graduate, the programme marks another step in the Basel Institute's efforts to strengthen global capacity to investigate financial crime, recover stolen assets, and build a new generation of practitioners connected through a worldwide community of practice.\n\nAlong with our second postgraduate programme, “[CAS Mastering Today’s Anti-Corruption Challenges](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fbasel-study\u002Fcas-anti-corruption)”, it marks our current portfolio of practice related academic programmes to support careers, knowledge and skills development of talented international professionals and practitioners.\n\nCongratulations to all the participants of this first cohort.\n\n## Learn more\n\n::: links\n- [Discover “Combating Financial Crime Through Asset Recovery”](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fbasel-study\u002Fcas-asset-recovery) -> Postgraduate programme delivered online in partnership with the University of Basel.\n- [Contribute to the Gretta Fenner Scholarship Fund](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fbasel-study\u002Fscholarship) -> Help train the next generation of anti-corruption professionals.\n- [Discover our offer of short online training courses](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fcourses) -> Practitioner-led training focused on real-world financial crime challenges. \n:::\n","2026-07-29","asset-recovery-postgraduate-programme-first-cohort","Asset recovery postgraduate programme: Celebrating our first graduating cohort","https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fcms\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F56fa7724-c399-4997-8519-bdfc4289f5b5?width=1000&height=650&format=webp&quality=90",[],[319,321,323,325],{"tags_id":320},{"id":69,"name":70},{"tags_id":322},{"id":284,"name":285},{"tags_id":324},{"id":256,"name":257},{"tags_id":326},{"id":327,"name":328},1372,"Training",[16,263],[],[],[18],[],"2026-07-29T08:03:11.000Z","2026-07-29T10:18:18.000Z",[],[],"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fasset-recovery-postgraduate-programme-first-cohort",{"id":340,"body":341,"status":6,"type":243,"date":342,"slug":343,"title":344,"image":345,"countries":346,"topic":13,"activity":13,"tags":348,"nid":13,"topics":357,"activities":13,"authors":358,"images":361,"websites":363,"area":13,"programme":13,"language":19,"translations":364,"translation_of":13,"user_created":149,"date_created":365,"user_updated":149,"date_updated":366,"content":367,"translations_news":368,"link":373},10646,"*A joint reflection by [Iker Lekuona](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fabout\u002Fteam\u002Fiker-lekuona\u002F), Director of the Basel Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) and [Oscar Solórzano](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fabout\u002Fteam\u002Foscar-solorzano\u002F), Head of Latin America for ICAR, on how Peru is translating its commitment to combating organised crime into lasting institutional capability.*\n\nAcross Latin America, governments face mounting pressure to respond to organised crime, illicit finance and growing public concerns about security. At the same time, international development budgets are under strain.\n\nIn this environment, one question keeps resounding: how can countries build capacity to tackle complex criminal threats with greater independence and resilience?\n\nFor those of us working in asset recovery, the answer lies in institutions.\n\n## Our goal in building asset recovery capability\n\nOne of the ambitions behind ICAR’s technical assistance has always been straightforward. We want our partners to reach the point where they no longer rely on us for day-to-day operational support.\n\nOur partnerships should evolve towards higher-value strategic collaboration. Technical assistance should leave behind stronger systems, stronger expertise and stronger institutions capable of carrying the work forward independently.\n\nThis is why recent developments in Peru are particularly significant.\n\n## A strategic response to financial and organised crime\n\nUnder the leadership of Attorney General Tomás Aladino Gálvez Villegas, the Public Prosecutor's Office is implementing a series of reforms that embed financial investigation, asset recovery and institutional coordination at the heart of Peru's response to organised crime.\n\nThe reforms form part of the _Sistema Fiscal Integrado de Recuperación de Activos_ (SFIRA) or “Integrated Prosecutorial Asset Recovery System”.\n\nAt a meeting in May this year with Attorney General Gálvez and senior colleagues, we reflected on the challenges posed by modern organised crime and the need for institutions that can respond to increasingly sophisticated illicit financial flows.\n\nRegarding the intent behind the reforms, the Attorney General commented:\n\n> We cannot continue expecting different results while relying on the same institutional approaches. Organised crime has evolved, and so must we. This reform reflects our determination to move beyond declarations of intent and build the permanent capabilities that prosecutors need to confront increasingly sophisticated criminal organisations.\n\nReflecting on impact of the Basel Institute’s technical assistance through ICAR, he said:\n\n> We value the support that the Basel Institute on Governance has provided over the years, and we invite the Basel Institute, our government institutions and the wider international community to join us in this effort. Confronting organised crime is a shared challenge that requires a shared commitment. This is how we turn commitment into practical action.\n\nHaving worked closely with the Peruvian authorities for more than a decade, we believe this direction will be transformative for the country and its people. We also believe other jurisdictions can be inspired by this strategic, systemic response. We share some of the reasoning and details below.\n\n## Organised crime is a financial phenomenon\n\nPublic debates about organised crime often focus on violence or trafficking. Yet in anti-corruption and asset recovery circles, we all know that criminal organisations survive only because they are able to generate, move, conceal and reinvest enormous sums of money.\n\nThe financial dimension of organised crime has become increasingly important as criminal groups expand across borders, diversify their activities and develop closer relationships with professional facilitators and corrupt actors. Illegal mining, environmental crime, drug trafficking, corruption and money laundering are frequently connected through the same financial networks.\n\nThis is one reason why asset recovery has attracted growing attention from governments and international organisations alike.\n\n## Less-known benefits of focusing on asset recovery\n\nRecovering illicit assets is valuable in itself, not least in times of squeezed public budgets and reduced flows of development aid. Confiscated assets can be reinvested in enhancing the capabilities of law enforcement and prosecution authorities. They can also be used to compensate victims and communities affected by corruption and crime.\n\nMore importantly, the process of conducting financial investigations and pursuing illicit assets helps authorities understand how criminal networks operate, identify those who profit from them and weaken the structures that allow them to endure.\n\nThis agenda has particular relevance today because it commands broad support across political and ideological divides. Governments may disagree on many issues. The need to tackle organised crime and illicit finance is rarely one of them.\n\n## What makes the reforms innovative and impactful\n\nExperience has also shown that asset recovery cannot remain a specialised activity reserved for exceptional cases. To keep pace with increasingly sophisticated criminal organisations, countries need to move beyond isolated successes and build institutions that make financial investigation and asset recovery part of everyday prosecutorial practice.\n\nIn Peru, rather than creating another specialised unit, the Public Prosecutor's Office is building an institutional model that brings together the capabilities needed to tackle the financial dimension of organised crime in a more coordinated, multidisciplinary and sustainable way.\n\nThe model combines specialised operational support for prosecutors, strategic criminal analysis and stronger institutional coordination. At the same time, it seeks to ensure that the knowledge gained through complex investigations is progressively embedded within the organisation.\n\nThe objective goes beyond success in individual cases. The aim is to strengthen the Public Prosecutor's Office's long-term capacity to investigate, disrupt and recover the proceeds of organised crime.\n\nImportantly, the new arrangements will support both international and domestic asset recovery efforts.\n\n- International cases remain essential but often require years of litigation and cooperation across multiple jurisdictions.\n- Domestically, Peru can also do a lot to target criminal assets located within its own borders and to disrupt illicit economies that continue to fuel insecurity and corruption.\n\nAs part of this effort, the Public Prosecutor's Office is investing its own resources in the new structure, including resources linked to a [tripartite asset return agreement](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fwhere-asset-recovery-really-happens-peru-advances-landmark-restitution-initiative-2949\u002F) between Peru, Luxembourg and Switzerland that was supported by the Basel Institute through ICAR.\n\n## From technical assistance to national ownership\n\nThis institutional model reflects capabilities developed over more than a decade of operational cooperation between our ICAR team and the Public Prosecutor's Office.\n\nThrough joint work on complex investigations, both our institutions developed practical approaches to financial investigation, international asset recovery and multidisciplinary prosecutorial support.\n\nThe current reforms seek to embed these proven capabilities within the permanent structures of the Public Prosecutor's Office. This will ensure that the knowledge accumulated through years of operational cooperation becomes part of the institution itself rather than remaining dependent on external technical assistance or individual expertise.\n\nFor donors and development partners, this matters.\n\nThe value of technical assistance cannot be measured only by assets recovered or training sessions delivered. Its deeper contribution lies in helping institutions develop the confidence, capabilities and structures needed to perform these functions independently and continuously improve them over time.\n\n## Why this matters beyond Peru\n\nEvery country must develop solutions that fit its own legal system, institutions and priorities. Yet some lessons travel well.\n\nOne is that asset recovery works best when it is integrated into broader efforts to combat organised crime rather than treated as a specialised activity operating at the margins of criminal investigations.\n\nAnother is that sustainable progress depends on institutions. Cases come and go. Leadership changes. Criminal networks evolve. Strong institutions provide continuity.\n\nPeru's reforms will not solve every challenge posed by organised crime. No single reform can. But they represent a thoughtful and ambitious attempt to strengthen the state's ability to understand, investigate and disrupt the financial foundations of criminal activity.\n\nFor us, they also represent something else: evidence that long-term partnerships can create capabilities that endure beyond any individual project. There are few better outcomes for a technical assistance programme than seeing the ideas, methods and expertise it has supported become part of the institutions it set out to strengthen.","2026-07-22","peru-asset-recovery-system","How Peru is making asset recovery a frontline tool against organised crime","https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fcms\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fb23a9861-35f6-48e3-9924-2df87c8e47a2?width=1000&height=650&format=webp&quality=90",[347],7823,[349,351,353],{"tags_id":350},{"id":130,"name":131},{"tags_id":352},{"id":284,"name":285},{"tags_id":354},{"id":355,"name":356},1365,"Technical assistance",[16],[359,360],1390,1391,[362],6,[18],[],"2026-07-22T06:39:50.000Z","2026-07-22T18:42:11.000Z",[],[369],{"title":370,"body":371,"slug":372,"language":91},"Cómo Perú está convirtiendo la recuperación de activos en una herramienta de primera línea contra el crimen organizado","*Una reflexión conjunta de [Iker Lekuona](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fabout\u002Fteam\u002Fiker-lekuona\u002F), director del International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) del Basel Institute, y [Oscar Solórzano](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fabout\u002Fteam\u002Foscar-solorzano\u002F), jefe de ICAR para América Latina, sobre cómo Perú está traduciendo su compromiso de combatir el crimen organizado en una capacidad institucional duradera.*\n\nEn toda América Latina, los gobiernos enfrentan una presión cada vez mayor para responder al crimen organizado, las finanzas ilícitas y la creciente preocupación pública por la seguridad. Al mismo tiempo, los presupuestos internacionales para el desarrollo se encuentran bajo presión.\n\nEn este contexto, una pregunta sigue resonando: ¿cómo pueden los países desarrollar la capacidad para hacer frente a amenazas criminales complejas con mayor independencia y resiliencia?\n\nPara quienes trabajamos en la recuperación de activos, la respuesta radica en las instituciones.\n\n## Nuestro objetivo al desarrollar la capacidad de recuperación de activos\n\nUna de las ambiciones que subyace a la asistencia técnica de ICAR siempre ha sido clara. Queremos que nuestros socios lleguen al punto en que ya no dependan de nosotros para el apoyo operativo cotidiano.\n\nNuestras alianzas deben evolucionar hacia una colaboración estratégica de mayor valor. La asistencia técnica debe dejar como legado sistemas más sólidos, conocimientos especializados más sólidos e instituciones más sólidas, capaces de llevar adelante el trabajo de manera independiente.\n\nEs por ello que los acontecimientos recientes en Perú revisten especial importancia.\n\n## Una respuesta estratégica al crimen financiero y organizado\n\nBajo el liderazgo del Fiscal de la Nación Tomás Aladino Gálvez Villegas, la Fiscalía de la Nación está implementando una serie de reformas que sitúan la investigación financiera, la recuperación de activos y la coordinación institucional en el centro de la respuesta de Perú al crimen organizado.\n\nLas reformas forman parte del _Sistema Fiscal Integrado de Recuperación de Activos_ (SFIRA).\n\nEn una reunión celebrada en mayo de este año con el Dr. Gálvez Villegas y altos funcionarios, reflexionamos sobre los desafíos que plantea el crimen organizado moderno y la necesidad de contar con instituciones que puedan responder a flujos financieros ilícitos cada vez más sofisticados.\n\nEn cuanto a la intención detrás de las reformas, el Fiscal de la Nación comentó:\n\n> No podemos seguir esperando resultados diferentes mientras nos basamos en los mismos enfoques institucionales. El crimen organizado ha evolucionado, y nosotros también debemos hacerlo. Esta reforma refleja nuestra determinación de ir más allá de las declaraciones de intenciones y desarrollar las capacidades permanentes que los fiscales necesitan para hacer frente a organizaciones criminales cada vez más sofisticadas.\n\nAl reflexionar sobre el impacto de la asistencia técnica del Basel Institute a través del ICAR, señaló:\n\n> Valoramos el apoyo que el Basel Institute on Governance nos ha brindado a lo largo de los años, e invitamos al Basel Institute, a nuestras instituciones gubernamentales y a la comunidad internacional en general a sumarse a este esfuerzo. Enfrentar al crimen organizado es un desafío compartido que requiere un compromiso compartido. Así es como convertimos el compromiso en acción concreta.\n\nTras haber trabajado en estrecha colaboración con las autoridades peruanas durante más de una década, creemos que esta orientación será transformadora para el país y su población. También creemos que otras jurisdicciones pueden inspirarse en esta respuesta estratégica y sistémica. A continuación, compartimos parte del razonamiento y los detalles.\n\n## El crimen organizado es un fenómeno financiero\n\nLos debates públicos sobre el crimen organizado suelen centrarse en la violencia o el tráfico ilícito. Sin embargo, en los círculos dedicados a la lucha contra la corrupción y la recuperación de activos, todos sabemos que las organizaciones criminales sobreviven únicamente porque son capaces de generar, mover, ocultar y reinvertir enormes sumas de dinero.\n\nLa dimensión financiera del crimen organizado ha cobrado cada vez más importancia a medida que los grupos criminales se expanden más allá de las fronteras, diversifican sus actividades y desarrollan relaciones más estrechas con facilitadores profesionales y actores corruptos. La minería ilegal, los delitos ambientales, el tráfico de drogas, la corrupción y el lavado de dinero suelen estar conectados a través de las mismas redes financieras.\n\nEsta es una de las razones por las que la recuperación de activos ha atraído una atención cada vez mayor tanto de los gobiernos como de las organizaciones internacionales.\n\n## Beneficios menos conocidos de centrarse en la recuperación de activos\n\nLa recuperación de activos ilícitos es valiosa en sí misma, sobre todo en tiempos de restricciones en los presupuestos públicos y de reducción de los flujos de ayuda para el desarrollo. Los activos decomisados pueden reinvertirse en mejorar las capacidades de las autoridades encargadas de hacer cumplir la ley y de la fiscalía. También pueden utilizarse para indemnizar a las víctimas y a las comunidades afectadas por la corrupción y la delincuencia.\n\nMás importante aún, el proceso de llevar a cabo investigaciones financieras y perseguir los activos ilícitos ayuda a las autoridades a comprender cómo operan las redes criminales, a identificar a quienes se benefician de ellas y a debilitar las estructuras que les permiten perdurar.\n\nEsta agenda tiene especial relevancia hoy en día porque cuenta con un amplio apoyo más allá de las divisiones políticas e ideológicas. Los gobiernos pueden estar en desacuerdo en muchos temas. La necesidad de combatir el crimen organizado y las finanzas ilícitas rara vez es uno de ellos.\n\n## Lo que hace que las reformas sean innovadoras y tengan un gran impacto\n\nLa experiencia también ha demostrado que la recuperación de activos no puede seguir siendo una actividad especializada reservada para casos excepcionales. Para mantenerse al día con organizaciones criminales cada vez más sofisticadas, los países deben ir más allá de los éxitos aislados y construir instituciones que integren la investigación financiera y la recuperación de activos en la práctica cotidiana de la fiscalía.\n\nEn Perú, en lugar de crear otra unidad especializada, la Fiscalía de la Nación está desarrollando un modelo institucional que reúne las capacidades necesarias para abordar la dimensión financiera del crimen organizado de una manera más coordinada, multidisciplinaria y sostenible.\n\nEl modelo combina apoyo operativo especializado para los fiscales, análisis criminalístico estratégico y una mayor coordinación institucional. Al mismo tiempo, busca garantizar que el conocimiento adquirido a través de investigaciones complejas se integre progresivamente en la organización.\n\nEl objetivo va más allá del éxito en casos individuales. Se trata de fortalecer la capacidad a largo plazo de la Fiscalía para investigar, desarticular y recuperar los productos del crimen organizado.\n\nEs importante destacar que las nuevas medidas respaldarán tanto los esfuerzos internacionales como los nacionales de recuperación de activos.\n\n- Los casos internacionales siguen siendo esenciales, pero a menudo requieren años de litigios y cooperación entre múltiples jurisdicciones.\n- A nivel nacional, Perú también puede hacer mucho para perseguir los activos delictivos ubicados dentro de sus propias fronteras y desarticular las economías ilícitas que continúan alimentando la inseguridad y la corrupción.\n\nComo parte de este esfuerzo, la Fiscalía de la Nación está invirtiendo sus propios recursos en la nueva estructura, incluidos los recursos vinculados a un [acuerdo tripartito de restitución de activos](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fwhere-asset-recovery-really-happens-peru-advances-landmark-restitution-initiative-2949\u002F) entre Perú, Luxemburgo y Suiza, que contó con el apoyo del Basel Institute a través de ICAR.\n\n## De la asistencia técnica a la apropiación nacional\n\nEste modelo institucional refleja las capacidades desarrolladas a lo largo de más de una década de cooperación operativa entre nuestro equipo de ICAR y la Fiscalía de la Nación.\n\nA través del trabajo conjunto en investigaciones complejas, ambas instituciones desarrollaron enfoques prácticos para la investigación financiera, la recuperación internacional de activos y el apoyo multidisciplinario a la fiscalía.\n\nLas reformas actuales buscan integrar estas capacidades comprobadas en las estructuras permanentes de la Fiscalía de la Nación. Esto garantizará que el conocimiento acumulado a lo largo de años de cooperación operativa se convierta en parte de la propia institución, en lugar de seguir dependiendo de la asistencia técnica externa o de la experiencia de personas específicas.\n\nPara los donantes y socios de desarrollo, esto es importante.\n\nEl valor de la asistencia técnica no puede medirse únicamente por los activos recuperados o las sesiones de capacitación impartidas. Su contribución más profunda radica en ayudar a las instituciones a desarrollar la confianza, las capacidades y las estructuras necesarias para desempeñar estas funciones de manera independiente y mejorarlas continuamente con el tiempo.\n\n## Por qué esto es importante más allá de Perú\n\nCada país debe desarrollar soluciones que se adapten a su propio sistema jurídico, sus instituciones y sus prioridades. Sin embargo, algunas lecciones son universalmente aplicables.\n\nUna de ellas es que la recuperación de activos funciona mejor cuando se integra en esfuerzos más amplios para combatir el crimen organizado, en lugar de tratarse como una actividad especializada que opera al margen de las investigaciones penales.\n\nOtra es que el progreso sostenible depende de las instituciones. Los casos van y vienen. El liderazgo cambia. Las redes criminales evolucionan. Las instituciones sólidas brindan continuidad.\n\nLas reformas del Perú no resolverán todos los desafíos que plantea el crimen organizado. Ninguna reforma por sí sola puede hacerlo. Pero representan un intento reflexivo y ambicioso de fortalecer la capacidad del Estado para comprender, investigar y desarticular los cimientos financieros de la actividad delictiva.\n\nPara nosotros, también representan algo más: la evidencia de que las alianzas a largo plazo pueden generar capacidades que perduran más allá de cualquier proyecto individual. Hay pocos resultados mejores para un programa de asistencia técnica que ver cómo las ideas, los métodos y la experiencia que ha apoyado se convierten en parte de las instituciones que se propuso fortalecer.","Peru-recuperacion-activos","\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fperu-asset-recovery-system",{"id":375,"body":376,"status":6,"type":243,"date":377,"slug":378,"title":379,"image":380,"countries":381,"topic":13,"activity":13,"tags":382,"nid":13,"topics":391,"activities":13,"authors":392,"images":394,"websites":395,"area":13,"programme":13,"language":19,"translations":396,"translation_of":13,"user_created":149,"date_created":397,"user_updated":149,"date_updated":398,"content":399,"translations_news":400,"link":401},10643,"Those of us dedicated to fighting financial crime were excited to see the Council of Europe’s recent [adoption of an Additional Protocol](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.coe.int\u002Fen\u002Fweb\u002Fportal\u002F-\u002Fnew-council-of-europe-treaty-to-strengthen-criminal-asset-recovery) to the Warsaw Convention, an international treaty on the prevention and control of money laundering and terrorist financing.\n\nThe Protocol, together with the Warsaw Convention, arguably represents one of the most advanced treaty frameworks on asset recovery. It elevates practices developed in more advanced jurisdictions into binding commitments and raises the baseline for all participating states.\n\nIt also requires states to rethink their approach to anti-money laundering and asset recovery in several important respects. Among others, it:\n\n-   places greater emphasis on financial investigations;\n-   strengthens the institutional architecture supporting asset recovery;\n-   obliges states to significantly improve their ability to cooperate in cross-border cases.\n\nTo achieve these objectives, it introduces a range of operational measures designed to facilitate the tracing, freezing, management and recovery of criminal assets. These include dedicated asset recovery bodies, centralised account registries and enhanced mechanisms for information sharing and international cooperation.\n\nThis short explainer highlights some of the points that we, at the Basel Institute, find most important and potentially impactful based on two decades of experience of our International Centre for Asset Recovery supporting jurisdictions around the world on anti-money laundering and asset recovery.\n\n## Why the new Protocol?\n\nThe 2005 Warsaw Convention – formally the Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure, and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime and on the Financing of Terrorism – establishes a comprehensive framework for anti-money laundering and asset recovery.\n\nIt requires its 39 States Parties to implement anti-money laundering measures, including customer due diligence, suspicious transaction reporting and Financial Intelligence Units. It also requires them to cooperate internationally to identify, trace, freeze, seize, confiscate and return criminal assets.\n\nThe need to modernise the Convention and respond to evolving forms of illicit finance, digital assets and the increasingly rapid movement of assets across borders drove the adoption of the new Protocol.\n\nThe Protocol seeks to ensure consistency with emerging international and regional standards, including the Financial Action Task Force Recommendations. It also seeks to make advanced asset recovery mechanisms developed within the European Union framework available across the wider Council of Europe space, which includes 46 European states.\n\n## Connecting financial intelligence with asset recovery and management\n\nThe Protocol's main innovation lies in the integration of **Financial Intelligence Units, Asset Recovery Offices and Asset Management Offices** into a coherent institutional architecture. The integration is designed to support rapid intervention, effective asset tracing and management, and cross-border cooperation.\n\nBy doing so, it strengthens the role of non-law enforcement actors in tracing, safeguarding and preserving the value of assets.\n\nFirst, under the Protocol, States Parties are required to establish **Asset Recovery Offices** with powers to trace assets, cooperate directly with foreign counterparts and take [immediate action](https:\u002F\u002Flearn.baselgovernance.org\u002Fmod\u002Fpage\u002Fview.php?id=878) to preserve assets, including crypto, in cross-border cases.\n\nSecond, States Parties are also required to establish **Asset Management Offices** responsible for managing frozen and confiscated property and for cooperating with domestic and foreign authorities.\n\nThird, the Protocol also strengthens the [operational role of Financial Intelligence Units](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002F2019-12\u002F191023-quickguides_prod-11_g07.pdf) in asset recovery by requiring states to grant them powers to temporarily suspend transactions, accounts and business relationships. Many jurisdictions already permit the temporary suspension of suspicious transactions. However, FATF standards do not require Financial Intelligence Units to have such authority.\n\nIn practice, these reforms recognise that anti-money laundering and asset recovery are closely interconnected. Early intervention significantly increases the chances of successful asset recovery at both domestic and cross-border level.\n\nThey also emphasise that asset value must be preserved from freezing to disposal. Achieving this requires empowering specialised authorities responsible for financial intelligence, asset tracing and asset management.\n\n## Streamlining access to asset and ownership data\n\nThe Protocol requires the establishment of centralised account registries capable of identifying bank accounts, payment accounts, securities accounts, safe deposit boxes and crypto accounts, along with their beneficial owners and any persons authorised to act on behalf of account holders. Financial Intelligence Units, **Asset Recovery Offices** and other competent authorities are explicitly granted access to these mechanisms.\n\nThis creates a dedicated infrastructure for locating assets within a jurisdiction. It also allows the exchange of such information between authorities in cross-border cases.\n\nWhile centralised bank account registries already exist in many jurisdictions, they are far from universal. Moreover, where such systems do exist, they have traditionally focused on bank account information and often do not extend to other forms of financial holdings, such as securities accounts, safe-deposit boxes or crypto accounts.\n\nIn practice, this addresses a major operational bottleneck. Identifying accounts usually requires multiple requests to banks and other institutions, which increases the length of financial investigations. Centralised registries significantly improve operational efficiency by accelerating asset tracing and reducing the risk of asset dissipation before authorities can act – an approach now being extended to volatile asset classes such as cryptocurrencies.\n\n## Maximising the value of financial investigations\n\nThe Protocol establishes a comprehensive framework to prioritise and enhance asset tracing and financial investigations.\n\nThe Protocol requires competent authorities to be able to conduct financial investigations without delay, independently or alongside criminal investigations at all stages of proceedings. This includes after a confiscation order has been issued.\n\nSuch investigations are intended to be flexible in scope and may be used to identify the scale of criminal networks, trace and secure assets subject to confiscation, or gather evidence for criminal or asset recovery proceedings.\n\nThis emphasis on early and adaptable financial investigation underscores the Protocol’s objective of embedding asset tracing and recovery as a routine component of enforcement processes, while preserving discretion for competent authorities in how these tools are applied in practice.\n\n## Asset management gets the attention it deserves\n\nThe Protocol encourage states to shift away from perceptions that asset management is a secondary administrative task and instead view it as a necessary, value-preserving core function of asset recovery systems. It obligates States Parties to establish a detailed [asset management](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fqg41\u002F) framework, that includes:\n\n-   **the possibility of selling seized assets before confiscation** where property is perishable, rapidly depreciating or requires specialised management that is not readily available, thereby preserving value pending the outcome of proceedings; and\n-   **measures facilitating the reuse** of seized and confiscated assets.\n\nExperience shows that preserving the value of seized assets requires more than legal powers. It also depends on having clear procedures, dedicated resources and expertise. This is particularly true for complex or newer forms of assets, such as [cryptocurrencies](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Fevents\u002Fcryptoasset-management-roundtable-side-event-to-the-10th-global-conference-2956).\n\nThe practical side of asset management is an especially important consideration for many of the Basel Institute’s partner jurisdictions, where asset management has often not been prioritised until now.\n\nLessons from the field show that strong asset management depends on the combination of legal frameworks and the capacity to putting them into practice, including specialized institutions for asset management.\n\n## Practical ways to enhance international cooperation\n\nThe Protocol introduces several measures designed to strengthen international cooperation between **Financial Intelligence Units, Asset Recovery Offices and Asset Management Offices**, as well as judicial authorities. On the latter, key measures we highlight as particularly valuable include:\n\nFirst, **mandatory standard forms** for the transmission and execution of freezing and confiscation requests.\n\nAlthough model templates already exist in a number of international and regional frameworks, their use is often optional. The Protocol seeks to promote greater consistency in requests, reduce delays caused by incomplete information and facilitate more efficient cooperation between authorities.\n\nSecond, **Joint Investigation Teams** established for the purpose of tracing and recovering assets liable to confiscation.\n\nJoint Investigation Teams provide a mechanism for authorities to work together in real time, exchanging intelligence and evidence directly without relying on formal mutual legal assistance. While they are already envisaged under instruments such as United Nations Convention Against Corruption, United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and EU law, these frameworks primarily focus on the investigation of criminal offences. By contrast, the Protocol innovatively provides for Joint Investigation Teams dedicated solely to asset recovery objectives.\n\nJoint Investigation Teams dedicated to financial investigations already operate [in practice](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.eurojust.europa.eu\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002Fassets\u002Feurojust-report-money-laundering-2022.pdf), but the Protocol provides a clear legal basis and encourages more systematic reliance on them. The combination of proactive domestic investigations and cross-border teams can be a powerful tool bolster the identification and ultimate freezing of criminal assets on a broader scale.\n\n## A powerful Protocol that can inspire all States – and is hopefully not a paper tiger\n\nThe Additional Protocol marks a clear shift in asset recovery towards an intelligence-led and institutionally integrated model of enforcement that also seeks to maximise the value of criminal assets that are seized and recovered by the state.\n\nIts practical impact though, will depend less on legislative alignment than on whether states can build the specialised institutions, tools, expertise and cross-border cooperation needed to make early tracing, preservation and recovery operationally effective.\n\nDepending on existing capacity, this may require legal reform, technical assistance and targeted training. Without this, the Protocol’s significance risks remaining largely theoretical.\n\nIn any case, even beyond the Council of Europe space, the Protocol provides a clear blueprint for jurisdictions seeking to strengthen their asset recovery frameworks. Its approach is closely aligned with the principles that guide our work with partner jurisdictions outside Europe. The Protocol will provide an additional tool to support countries in designing reforms that are both ambitious and grounded in their specific legal, institutional and operational realities.\n\n[View key points (PDF).](https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F0a8ca73f-010d-4c2c-8c7c-53f344965cf4)","2026-07-14","new-asset-recovery-protocol","Is this a turning point for asset recovery success in Europe?","https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fcms\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fc7ee2bf1-f085-496b-8088-3f14b58ce4e3?width=1000&height=650&format=webp&quality=90",[],[383,385,389],{"tags_id":384},{"id":216,"name":217},{"tags_id":386},{"id":387,"name":388},858,"Asset management",{"tags_id":390},{"id":284,"name":285},[16],[393],1387,[],[18],[],"2026-07-14T15:13:14.000Z","2026-07-16T06:51:22.000Z",[],[],"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fnew-asset-recovery-protocol",{"id":403,"body":404,"status":6,"type":10,"date":405,"slug":406,"title":407,"image":408,"countries":409,"topic":13,"activity":13,"tags":410,"nid":13,"topics":419,"activities":13,"authors":420,"images":421,"websites":422,"area":13,"programme":13,"language":19,"translations":423,"translation_of":13,"user_created":37,"date_created":424,"user_updated":425,"date_updated":426,"content":427,"translations_news":428,"link":429},10642,"As part of a wider Swiss-Romanian Cooperation Programme, our International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) has concluded a successful nine-month [train-the-trainer (TTT) programme](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Flearning\u002Ftraining\u002Ftrain-the-trainer) in Bucharest.\n\nAlongside delivering foundational money laundering and asset recovery training to 125 practitioners in total, the programme has certified six new local trainers. Equipped with ICAR’s unique training methodology, they are now ready to independently train their peers and help strengthen financial investigation and asset recovery capacity across Romania.\n\n## Building sustainable national capacity\n\nThe six trainers certified through the programme include one judge, four prosecutors and one representative of the National Agency for the Management of Seized Assets (ANABI). Fully independently, they will now deliver a further 15 workshops across the country. \n\nThis effort will effectively bring the total number of practitioners trained to around 500, including judges, prosecutors, specialists, ANABI inspectors and other relevant practitioners.\n\nThis is a clear example of how train-the-trainer programmes are a proven approach to building sustainable national capacity. On one side, certified local trainers help ensure that knowledge and skills continue to be transferred even after a programme concludes. On the other side, participants benefit far more from learning from peers who understand their specific challenges and possibilities. \n\n![](https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F6e8e2abf-4837-4223-ac15-104e535cf8ff)\n\n## Two critical legal tools in focus\n\nThis time, the programme placed particular emphasis on two areas where practitioners can strengthen their response to financial crime: treating money laundering as a standalone offence and launching financial investigations from the earliest stages of a case.\n\n### 1. The standalone money laundering offence\n\nA persistent challenge in money laundering investigations is the assumption that prosecutors must first prove or secure a conviction before pursuing money laundering charges.\n\nUnder the Council of Europe's Warsaw Convention (CETS No. 198, Art. 9) and EU Directive (EU) 2018\u002F1673 on combating money laundering by criminal law, a conviction for money laundering actually requires neither a prior nor a simultaneous conviction for the predicate offence, nor that the predicate offence be established or identified with precision: prosecutors need only show that the property derives from criminal activity, not which specific crime generated it.\n\nAs one of the newly certified trainers reflected:\n\n> I highly valued the new perspective of setting aside the old view of placement, layering and integrating the proceeds of a crime in order to prove money laundering. […] It was very useful the approach of covering as many areas as possible impacted by money laundering, like crypto assets, which I did not know almost anything about before, and asset recovery, which is not a topic very much considered in our practice. I was also very impressed how the concept of multi-stakeholder approach in fighting ML was reflected in setting up the groups for the practical exercise.\n\n### 2. Systematic use of parallel financial investigations\n\nAnother important approach is the systematic use of parallel financial investigations to identify and trace criminal assets from the outset of a case.\n\nThis approach is now required under Directive (EU) 2024\u002F1260 on asset recovery and confiscation, which obliges Member States to launch asset-tracing investigations alongside criminal investigations into high-revenue-generating crime, rather than waiting for a conviction before tracing assets. \n\nThis shift is already visible in practice. One trainer wrote:\n\n> I started talking to my colleagues about financial investigations and money laundering. I managed to send to court my first money laundering case, though not standalone, and I also started asking the police to start financial investigations from the beginning of the file.\n\n## From training to real cases\n\nThe effect of our training has also reached institutional level. One trainer reported:\n\n> The management has started disseminating theoretical and practical materials on these topics, organising meetings and training sessions with practitioners and academics, and actively encouraging prosecutors to consider money laundering and asset recovery aspects in their cases. These initiatives have facilitated increased awareness and engagement within the institution.\n\nThis is exactly the dual impact we seek through the Train-the-Trainer model: a sustainable, independently delivered training capacity, paired with a genuine shift in how practitioners approach financial investigations in their daily work and how their institutions prioritise it. \n\nWith the first independently delivered workshops planned for September 2026, our ICAR training team looks forward to following the six newly certified trainers and seeing their work generate further impact across Romania.\n\n## Update: From onsite to online training settings\nOur interactive ICAR training on financial investigations and asset recovery is also adapted to online delivery. Building sustainable national capacity also means transferring this experience to local trainers.\n\nOn 16–18 September 2026, the six Romanian trainers joined us at our headquarters in Basel for a mentoring session on online training development. Participants learned about:\n- the specificities of training logistics for online delivery;\n- the use of polls, quizzes and interactive tools;\n- the use of videoconferencing functionalities; and\n- the use of breakout rooms for multi-agency group work on simulated investigations.\n\nThe session also covered how the e-Learning platform specifically developed with the Romanian Prosecutor's Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice (PICCJ) and the National Institute of Magistracy (INM) can be managed for online delivery.\n\nThe certified trainers are now equipped to independently deliver the financial investigation and asset recovery workshops to their peers online, as well as onsite.\n\n## About the programme\n\nThis TTT was part of the Component 3 (*Strengthening the institutional capacity in the area of financial investigations and asset recovery* – FIARS) of a larger Swiss-Romanian Cooperation Programme.\n\nThis component is implemented by PICCJ as component operator, in partnership with the INM and the Basel Institute on Governance as the Swiss partner. \n","2026-06-30","six-new-certified-trainers-in-romania","Six new certified trainers will scale financial investigation and asset recovery capacity in Romania","https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fcms\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F01933814-65b1-456f-b042-211e39e191ab?width=1000&height=650&format=webp&quality=90",[],[411,413,415,417],{"tags_id":412},{"id":69,"name":70},{"tags_id":414},{"id":134,"name":135},{"tags_id":416},{"id":284,"name":285},{"tags_id":418},{"id":327,"name":328},[16,263],[],[],[18],[],"2026-06-29T15:17:08.000Z","d22c72aa-896a-43ce-acca-4154ff70a25a","2026-09-21T10:13:58.000Z",[],[],"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fsix-new-certified-trainers-in-romania",{"left":431,"top":431,"width":432,"height":432,"rotate":431,"vFlip":433,"hFlip":433,"body":434},0,20,false,"\u003Cpath fill=\"currentColor\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M17 10a.75.75 0 0 1-.75.75H5.612l4.158 3.96a.75.75 0 1 1-1.04 1.08l-5.5-5.25a.75.75 0 0 1 0-1.08l5.5-5.25a.75.75 0 1 1 1.04 1.08L5.612 9.25H16.25A.75.75 0 0 1 17 10\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\"\u002F>",1790250953791]