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Following a financial investigation and civil proceedings under Kenya’s Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act (2003), Kiamba was ordered to forfeit around USD 3 million in assets to the state. A subsequent criminal case based on the same underlying facts and investigation ultimately led to his conviction in 2022.\n\nThe case demonstrates how a “belt and braces” approach – applying both civil and criminal proceedings – can help anti-corruption agencies to confiscate the proceeds of corruption relatively quickly, even if the criminal case drags on or fails to reach the stricter standard of proof. It also highlights the impact of providing hands-on mentoring to investigators during real ongoing cases and over an extended period of time.\n\n### Open-access licence and acknowledgements\n\nThis publication is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Case Study series, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fcase-studies\">ISSN 2813-3900\u003C\u002Fa>. It is licensed for sharing under a Creative Commons \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F\">BY-NC-ND 4.0\u003C\u002Fa> licence.\n\nThe Case Study series offers practitioners insights into interesting and precedent-setting cases involving corruption and asset recovery. Many such cases are drawn from partner countries of the Basel Institute's \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fasset-recovery\">International Centre for Asset Recovery\u003C\u002Fa>.\n\nSuggested citation: Marsh, Simon. 2022. “The Kiamba case: achieving a civil asset forfeiture order and criminal prosecution.\" *Case Study* 9, Basel Institute on Governance. 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It is licensed for sharing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License ([CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F)).\n\nPhoto: [Studio Sifaka](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.studiosifaka.org\u002Farticles\u002Factualites\u002Fitem\u002F8084-plus-de-mille-tortues-et-pres-d-une-cinquantaine-de-lemuriens-vivants-saisis-en-thailande.html) \u002F khaosodenglish (used with permission).\n\nThe Case Study series offers practitioners insights into interesting and precedent-setting cases involving corruption and asset recovery. This case relates to the Basel Institute's [Green Corruption programme](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fgreen-corruption).\n\nThe development of this publication was funded through the Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) Challenge Fund.\n\nThe contents are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Basel Institute on Governance, its donors and partners, or the University of Basel.\n",[257],"2026-03-31","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fea8361c6-bffd-4cfd-9119-7bc822b39af7?width=600&height=840","Rakotondramanana, Joseph. 2026. “Madagascar: a landmark conviction for money laundering linked to environmental crime.” Case Study 14, Basel Institute on Governance. 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Sentences of up to 10 years in prison were handed down, alongside approximately USD 8.7 million in customs penalties and damages. This is the first time Madagascar has applied the offence of money laundering to a wildlife trafficking case.\n- Training on financial investigations by the Basel Institute on Governance, together with the facilitation of information exchange and peer learning among enforcement practitioners, contributed to this landmark result. The Malagasy authorities are now better equipped to overcome structural challenges in applying a “follow-the-money” approach to organised environmental crime, including limited technical expertise, insufficient resources and the complexity of cross-border financial investigations.","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fcs-14",{"id":345,"slug":346,"title":347,"status":6,"nid":348,"year":185,"body":349,"external":19,"topic":350,"language":33,"type":351,"date_published":352,"image":353,"citation":354,"publisher":17,"link_internal":355,"link_external":357,"authors":358,"countries":363,"tags":368,"pdf":375,"topics":377,"featured":19,"languages":7,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":378,"sort":7,"user_created":55,"date_created":379,"user_updated":56,"date_updated":380,"main_points":381,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":382},2428,"cs-12","Case Study 12: Indonesia: a landmark money laundering conviction in a forestry crime case",2874,"This Case Study highlights how investigators of Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry achieved their first conviction for money laundering linked to forestry offences, leveraging institutional and legal changes in financial investigation procedures.\n\n### About this Case Study\n\nThis publication is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Case Study series, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fcase-studies\">ISSN 2813-3900\u003C\u002Fa>. It is licensed for sharing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F\">CC BY-NC-ND 4.0\u003C\u002Fa>).\n\nThe development of this publication was funded through the Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) Challenge Fund.\n\nThe contents are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Basel Institute on Governance, its donors and partners, or the University of Basel.",[337],[257],"2025-11-25","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fcb6cbdfc-7348-43d5-bfc0-2d3fc41157cd?width=600&height=840","Anindito, Lakso. 2025. “Indonesia: a landmark money laundering conviction in a forestry crime case.” Case Study 12, Basel Institute on Governance. Available at: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fcs-12\">baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fcs-12\u003C\u002Fa>.",[356],{"url":262,"caption":263},[],[359],{"authors_id":360},{"id":361,"name":362},523,"Lakso Anindito",[364],{"countries_id":365},{"id":366,"name":367},99,"Indonesia",[369,371,373],{"tags_id":370},{"id":235,"name":236},{"tags_id":372},{"id":326,"name":327},{"tags_id":374},{"id":75,"name":76},[376],2483,[337],"\u003C!-- image -->\n\n## Case Study 12\n\n## November 2025\n\n## Indonesia: a landmark money laundering conviction in a forestry crime case\n\nHow investigators of Indonesia's Ministry of Environment and Forestry achieved their first conviction for money laundering linked to forestry offences, leveraging institutional and legal changes in financial investigation procedures.\n\nLakso Anindito , Team Leader Indonesia, Green Corruption programme, Basel Institute on Governance\n\n\u003C!-- image -->\n\n## Key points\n\n- → In a case of illegal logging in Alas Purwo National Park, investigators of Indonesia's Ministry of Environment and Forestry 1  obtained their first money laundering conviction.\n- → This achievement was made possible through a 2021 Constitutional Court decision extending the power to pursue  money laundering offences  to  investigators in  charge of predicate offences, in this case timber trafficking.  This  power  was  previously  limited  to investigators of traditional law enforcement agencies, including the police and the Corruption Eradication Commission.\n- → Training  and  technical  assistance  by  the  Green Corruption  programme  of  the  Basel  Institute  on Governance contributed to strengthening law\n\n- enforcement capacities to effectively handle money laundering cases and track illicit financial flows tied to environmental crimes.\n- → Sustained coordination and collaboration among the Ministry, Indonesia's Financial Intelligence Unit and the Attorney General's Office were pivotal in applying the follow-the-money approach to the illegal logging case.\n- → Businessman  Supono  was  convicted  initially  of illegally trading rosewood and later of laundering approximately USD 127,000 he had obtained through log  trading.  In  both  cases,  he  was  sentenced  to prison and ordered to pay a fine.\n- → Although the amount of money laundered in this case and the imposed fines were relatively modest, the case set a precedent for integrating financial crime investigations into environmental enforcement. This paves the way for future, larger-scale prosecutions by investigators of environmental agencies.\n\n## The case\n\n- 1. In 2021, investigators at the Ministry of Environment and Forestry started investigating indications of illegal logging in Alas Purwo National Park in Banyuwangi, East Java. National Park staff had caught a transporter carrying illegally logged rosewood (sonokeling) .\n- 2 . The  investigation  began  with  an  effort  to  identify who  was  benefiting  from  the  illegal  activities.  A businessman named Supono was later identified as the beneficiary. He was the person who orchestrated the transport of the rosewood logs.\n- 3. In 2022, the Banyuwangi District Court convicted Supono of intentionally transporting and owning forest products (logs of 31 rosewood trees sourced from Alas Purwo National Park) without permit. 2 The Court sentenced Supono to two years in prison and a fine of IDR 500 million (approx. USD 29,900). This first case was pursued purely on the basis of forestry crime charges.\n- 4. The Ministry's investigators continued to pursue the case using a follow-the-money approach to trace the proceeds of the crime. They applied this approach in close collaboration with the Financial Intelligent Unit (PPATK), which contributed key information, and in coordination with the Attorney General's Office. The financial investigation revealed:\n- a. Supono carried out suspicious financial transactions with two sawmill companies, PT Aji Sono and PT Amruu. His later statement during the court  proceedings  disclosed  that  the  logs  he was  trading  with  these  two  companies  were sourced not only from Alas Purwo National Park, but also from other locations, including Lampung, Sulawesi and Sumbawa.\n- b. Between 2020 and 2022, Supono gained approximately USD 127,000 from trading logs with PT Aji Sono (IDR 1,454,440,000) and PT Amruu (IDR 670,980,800).\n\n- c. To conceal the origins of the illegal proceeds, the  two  companies  transferred  the  money for their log purchases to the bank account of Supono's son, which was effectively controlled by Supono himself.\n- d. Supono then moved the money from his son's bank  account  to  his  own  account  in  smaller transactions, both via direct transfer and via cash withdrawal and manual deposits.\n- e. Supono integrated the proceeds of crime with money  he  had  loaned  from  the  bank  in  2020 (when he had no specific need for a bank loan). He then used the illicit funds to pay back the loan. He used this 'loan-back' method to disguise the proceeds of crime as legitimate money from the bank and other unrelated business activities.\n- f. Among other things, Supono used the money from the logging business to buy land.\n- 5. In 2024,  the  Banyuwangi  District  Court  issued its decision No. 11\u002FPid.Sus\u002F2024\u002FPN Byw 3  declaring Supono  guilty  of  money  laundering.  The  Court sentenced  Supono  to  one  year  and  three  months in  prison  and  a  fine  of  IDR  50  million  (approx. USD 3,000). The proceeds of the crime as such were not recovered.\n\nThe illegal logging and money laundering scheme uncovered by investigators of Indonesia's Ministry of Environment and Forestry.\n\n\u003C!-- image -->\n\n## Legal background\n\n- · In  2010,  Indonesia  enacted  the  new  AntiMoney Laundering Law No. 8\u002F2010. 4 It provides  a legal  framework  for  tracing  and prosecuting illicit financial flows, including those  linked  to  environmental  crimes .  This marked a major step towards integrating  financial investigation tools into law enforcement efforts against  money  laundering.  However,  initially, only investigators of traditional law enforcement authorities  were  authorised  to  use  this  law, including from police, the Attorney General's Office, the Corruption Eradication Commission, the National Narcotics Agency, the tax authority and customs.\n- · A  landmark  decision  came  in  2021  when the  Constitutional  Court  issued  its  Decision\n\nNo. 15\u002FPUU-XIX\u002F2021. 5 This authorised investigators in charge of predicate offences, including from natural resources and environmental  authorities,  to  investigate not only environmental  crimes  such  as timber trafficking but also the related money laundering offences .\n\n- · The  Ministry  of  Environment  and  Forestry initiated  several strategic  actions  to  utilise its expanded powers . For example, it reached an  agreement  with  the  Indonesian  Financial Intelligence Unit to develop a joint investigation team. The Ministry also set its investigators the target of handling environmental cases using a  follow-the-money  approach,  and  started collaborating with the Attorney General's Office.\n\n## What can we learn from this case?\n\n## Laws and their interpretation are important….\n\nThe Constitutional Court's 2021 Decision is an important example of how a legal framework can be interpreted to  maximise its effectiveness in practice. In this case, the decision granted investigators from environmental agencies - in addition to investigators from traditional law enforcement agencies - the legal authority to pursue money laundering offences linked to environmental crimes.\n\nIt  empowered investigators to expand their scope and approach, laying the groundwork for more comprehensive enforcement in the future.\n\n## … but using laws in practice requires training and 'learning by doing'\n\nDespite their new powers, the investigators still faced difficulties in tracing illicit financial flows and understanding complex financial transactions linked to environmental crimes. They lacked knowledge and practice in gathering financial intelligence, using investigative technology and cooperating with other agencies domestically or abroad.\n\nOngoing training in financial analysis and intelligence gathering can equip investigators with the necessary skills, tools and networks to tackle money laundering activities, including those linked to environmental crimes.\n\nA  'learning  by  doing'  approach  helps  -  i.e.  applying new skills in realistic case investigations, together with counterparts from other agencies.\n\n## The value of hands-on, inter-agency training\n\nAs part of an Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) Challenge  Fund  project, 6   the  Green  Corruption team of  the  Basel  Institute  on  Governance  has trained Indonesian law enforcement agencies to effectively  handle  money  laundering  cases  and track illicit financial flows tied to illegal logging and wildlife-related crimes with the follow-themoney approach.\n\nThe training brought together investigators and prosecutors  from  key  government  agencies, including from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Attorney General's Office and Financial Intelligence Unit. Participants formed inter-agency groups and collaborated on a realistic case scenario, with each person contributing based on their respective role. The training used practical tools and exercises to explain how criminals conceal money and other assets through shell companies, business fronts, real estate investments and tax havens.\n\nBesides training, the Basel Institute also supported the Ministry of Environment and Forestry in developing  guidelines  to  handle  money  laundering cases,  providing  technical  knowledge  on  the investigation process.\n\nIt  was  just  a  few  months  after  the  training  that the Ministry's investigators, in collaboration with the  Attorney  General's  Office  and  the  Financial Intelligence Unit, achieved their first successful convictions for money laundering related to forest crimes.\n\n## Real cases - even when modest - can have a big impact\n\nThis case set a precedent for integrating financial crime investigations into environmental crime cases.\n\nEven  though  the  amount  of  money  laundered  in  this particular case was relatively low - and the fines Supono was sentenced to pay were a small fraction of that amount - the case has opened the door to tackling more complex, high-value cases in the future.\n\nThis first case also played an important role in helping the Ministry of Environment and Forestry's investigators to:\n\n- · shift their perspective from investigating illegal logging crimes only to handling money laundering offences; and\n- · move  from  a  general  understanding  of  money laundering in theory to handling real-life cases in practice.\n\nWhile training and guidelines were necessary to support the process, the real case itself served as a critical opportunity to identify both obstacles and solutions in applying the follow-the-money approach.\n\n## Both leaders and frontline investigators need to take action\n\nEvery natural resource trafficking case has a potential for exploring money laundering due to the amount of money involved in this type of crime.\n\nA  successful  investigation  requires  initiative from investigators and support from decision-makers. In this case of illegal logging in Alas Purwo National Park:\n\n- · The Ministry of Environment and Forestry's Director General and Director of Investigation encouraged investigators to adopt the follow-the-money approach.\n- · At the technical level, investigators put this encouragement  into  action,  demonstrating  their commitment  to  following  the  money  in  existing predicate crime cases.\n\n## Inter-agency collaboration is vital\n\nCoordination between the relevant agencies from the outset of the investigation has been pivotal to concluding the case successfully. The mutual understanding between counterparts from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Attorney General's Office and Financial Intelligence Unit provided a strong foundation for the enforcement process.\n\n## Keywords\n\n\u003C!-- image -->\n\nIndonesia\n\nEnvironmental crimes\n\nIllegal logging\n\nMoney laundering\n\nFinancial investigation\n\n## About this Case Study\n\nThis publication is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Case Study series, ISSN 2813-3900. It is licensed for sharing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0  International  Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).\n\nSuggested citation: Anindito, Lakso. 2025. 'Indonesia: a  landmark  money  laundering  conviction  in  a  forestry crime case.' Case Study 12, Basel Institute on Governance. Available at: https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002F cs-12.\n\n## Acknowledgment and disclaimer\n\n\u003C!-- image -->\n\nThe  development  of  this  publication  was funded through the Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) Challenge Fund.\n\nThe contents are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Basel Institute on Governance, its donors and partners, or the University of Basel.\n\n\u003C!-- image -->\n\n\u003C!-- image -->\n\n\u003C!-- image -->\n\n\u003C!-- image -->\n\n\u003C!-- image -->\n\n\u003C!-- image -->","2025-11-25T17:05:34.000Z","2026-06-02T14:08:56.000Z","- In a case of illegal logging in Alas Purwo National Park, investigators of Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry obtained their first money laundering conviction.\n- This achievement was made possible through a 2021 Constitutional Court decision extending the power to pursue money laundering offences to investigators in charge of predicate offences, in this case timber trafficking. This power was previously limited to investigators of traditional law enforcement agencies, including the police and the Corruption Eradication Commission.\n- Training and technical assistance by the Green Corruption programme of the Basel Institute on Governance contributed to strengthening law enforcement capacities to effectively handle money laundering cases and track illicit financial flows tied to environmental crimes.\n- Sustained coordination and collaboration among the Ministry, Indonesia’s Financial Intelligence Unit and the Attorney General’s Office were pivotal in applying the follow-the-money approach to the illegal logging case.\n- Businessman Supono was convicted initially of illegally trading rosewood and later of laundering approximately USD 127,000 he had obtained through log trading. In both cases, he was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay a fine.\n- Although the amount of money laundered in this case and the imposed fines were relatively modest, the case set a precedent for integrating financial crime investigations into environmental enforcement. This paves the way for future, larger-scale prosecutions by investigators of environmental agencies.","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fcs-12",{"id":384,"slug":385,"title":386,"status":6,"nid":387,"year":253,"body":388,"external":19,"topic":389,"language":33,"type":390,"date_published":392,"image":393,"citation":14,"publisher":394,"link_internal":395,"link_external":396,"authors":400,"countries":401,"tags":402,"pdf":415,"topics":416,"featured":19,"languages":417,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":55,"date_created":418,"user_updated":340,"date_updated":419,"main_points":420,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":421},2239,"illicit-financial-flows-and-natural-resource-corruption-tnrc-guide","Illicit financial flows and natural resource corruption - a TNRC guide",2302,"This introductory guide for the Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) project:\n\n\n- outlines the impact of illicit financial flows on conservation goals;\n- explains approaches that can help conservation and natural resource management practitioners to strengthen their programming and related responses;\n- offers guidance on risks and constraints to such financial approaches.\n\n\nIt leads the Illicit Financial Flows topic page of the TNRC Knowledge Hub and is designed to help practitioners find relevant resources.\n\nThe key takeaways are:\n\n\n- **Understanding the financial aspects** of natural resource crimes and corruption can reveal opportunities to **reduce the incentives** to illegally exploit and trade in natural resources, as well as to **strengthen law enforcement** against those who profit from environmental destruction.\n- **Targeting the financial aspects** of natural resource crimes, especially where money crosses borders, can help to **identify and break up corrupt and criminal networks** and lead to the **recovery of illicit proceeds.**\n- **\"Follow the money”** approaches vary according to context, but generally require **multi-stakeholder and cross-sector collaboration** and information sharing.\n\n\nThe Basel Institute's \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fgreen-corruption\">Green Corruption\u003C\u002Fa> team developed the guide in collaboration with TNRC consortium partners and external experts.",[337],[391],"Article","2022-10-26","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fa4131d58-bd66-473b-8bdd-4be275aef858?width=600&height=840","Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) project",[],[397],{"url":398,"caption":399},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.worldwildlife.org\u002Fpages\u002Ftnrc-guide-illicit-financial-flows","View on TNRC website",[],[],[403,407,409,411],{"tags_id":404},{"id":405,"name":406},1215,"Illicit financial flows",{"tags_id":408},{"id":326,"name":327},{"tags_id":410},{"id":75,"name":76},{"tags_id":412},{"id":413,"name":414},804,"Natural resources",[],[337],[33],"2022-10-27T16:04:08.000Z","2026-06-02T21:21:33.000Z","- **Understanding the financial aspects** of natural resource crimes and corruption can reveal opportunities to **reduce the incentives** to illegally exploit and trade in natural resources, as well as to **strengthen law enforcement** against those who profit from environmental destruction.\n- **Targeting the financial aspects** of natural resource crimes, especially where money crosses borders, can help to **identify and break up corrupt and criminal networks** and lead to the **recovery of illicit proceeds.**\n- **\"Follow the money”** approaches vary according to context, but generally require **multi-stakeholder and cross-sector collaboration** and information sharing.","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fillicit-financial-flows-and-natural-resource-corruption-tnrc-guide",{"id":423,"slug":424,"title":425,"status":6,"nid":426,"year":185,"body":427,"external":19,"topic":428,"language":33,"type":429,"date_published":430,"image":431,"citation":14,"publisher":17,"link_internal":432,"link_external":434,"authors":435,"countries":440,"tags":441,"pdf":448,"topics":450,"featured":19,"languages":7,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":55,"date_created":451,"user_updated":56,"date_updated":452,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":453},2423,"qg42","Quick Guide 42: Non-conviction based confiscation",2856,"Criminals exploit legal loopholes, borders and other avenues to conceal the proceeds of their illegal activities and evade prosecution. Meanwhile, they use their illicit proceeds to buy luxury villas or increase their power and influence. Victims of crime – including communities affected by corruption – suffer the losses.\n\nOne tool to address this problem is non-conviction based confiscation: legal mechanisms that allow states to recover illicit assets even in the absence of a criminal conviction. It is also known as non-conviction based forfeiture or, in some jurisdictions, civil confiscation or civil forfeiture.\n\nThis Quick Guide outlines in simple terms how non-conviction based confiscation is used, the concerns and challenges it faces and how it can be implemented in line with established legal safeguards.\n\n### About this Quick Guide\n\nYou are free to share and republish this work under a \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F\">Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 Licence\u003C\u002Fa>. It is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Quick Guide series, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications?type=2428\">ISSN 2673-5229\u003C\u002Fa>.",[21],[38],"2025-10-16","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fa1e40d9b-26cb-4ffc-879f-d7edee80ecbb?width=600&height=840",[433],{"url":24,"caption":193},[],[436],{"authors_id":437},{"id":438,"name":439},553,"Rita Simões",[],[442,446],{"tags_id":443},{"id":444,"name":445},1379,"Non-conviction based forfeiture",{"tags_id":447},{"id":405,"name":406},[449],2479,[31],"2025-10-16T10:05:33.000Z","2026-06-02T14:08:55.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fqg42",{"id":455,"slug":456,"title":457,"status":6,"nid":458,"year":185,"body":459,"external":19,"topic":460,"language":33,"type":461,"date_published":462,"image":463,"citation":14,"publisher":17,"link_internal":464,"link_external":466,"authors":467,"countries":470,"tags":471,"pdf":478,"topics":481,"featured":19,"languages":7,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":55,"date_created":482,"user_updated":56,"date_updated":452,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":483},2415,"qg41","Quick Guide 41: Managing seized and confiscated assets",2834,"This Quick Guide explains why effective, transparent and fair management of seized and confiscated assets – including assets linked to sanctions violations – is essential to successful asset recovery. It introduces key principles, standards and practical steps based on international good practice. These include legal, institutional and technical arrangements, that help countries manage seized assets in a way that preserves value, ensures accountability and supports justice.\n\nThe Guide is primarily intended for government officials working in law enforcement, justice and asset recovery. It may also be useful to policymakers and development partners seeking a better understanding of how countries can improve their asset management systems.\n\n### About this Quick Guide\n\nYou are free to share and republish this work under a \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F\">Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 Licence\u003C\u002Fa>. It is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Quick Guide series, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications?type=2428\">ISSN 2673-5229\u003C\u002Fa>.",[21],[38],"2025-07-16","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F8b319ca1-ed7c-4d10-874e-a1583fed7ffc?width=600&height=840",[465],{"url":24,"caption":193},[],[468],{"authors_id":469},{"id":438,"name":439},[],[472,476],{"tags_id":473},{"id":474,"name":475},858,"Asset management",{"tags_id":477},{"id":282,"name":283},[479,480],2469,2470,[31],"2025-08-21T23:52:11.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fqg41",{"id":485,"slug":486,"title":487,"status":6,"nid":488,"year":215,"body":489,"external":19,"topic":490,"language":33,"type":491,"date_published":492,"image":493,"citation":14,"publisher":17,"link_internal":494,"link_external":496,"authors":497,"countries":502,"tags":503,"pdf":504,"topics":506,"featured":19,"languages":507,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":55,"date_created":508,"user_updated":56,"date_updated":509,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":510},2370,"quick-guide-33-multi-agency-asset-recovery-task-forces","Quick Guide 33: Multi-agency asset recovery task forces",2706,"To effectively combat organised and financial crime, it is often necessary for countries to establish multi-agency asset recovery task forces, which could also be understood as joint investigation teams\u002Funits. The teams are made up of personnel from various agencies in the criminal justice system to effectively investigate financial crime and recover laundered assets.\n\nThis Quick Guide examines their composition, the nature of cases they work on and how they can be set up. It also touches on the benefits of having such task forces in place and highlights success stories and lessons learnt from previous experience.\n\n### About this Quick Guide\n\nYou are free to share and republish this work under a \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F\">Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 License\u003C\u002Fa>. It is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Quick Guide series, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications?type=2428\">ISSN 2673-5229\u003C\u002Fa>.",[21],[38],"2024-10-10","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Faf7f2f7b-1db1-4657-b950-b3471e934a92?width=600&height=840",[495],{"url":24,"caption":193},[],[498],{"authors_id":499},{"id":500,"name":501},311,"Tom Walugembe",[],[],[505],2407,[31],[33],"2024-10-09T16:05:07.000Z","2026-06-02T14:08:48.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fquick-guide-33-multi-agency-asset-recovery-task-forces",{"id":512,"slug":513,"title":514,"status":6,"nid":515,"year":215,"body":516,"external":19,"topic":517,"language":33,"type":518,"date_published":519,"image":520,"citation":14,"publisher":521,"link_internal":522,"link_external":526,"authors":527,"countries":532,"tags":533,"pdf":538,"topics":540,"featured":19,"languages":541,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":55,"date_created":542,"user_updated":56,"date_updated":543,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":544},2347,"quick-guide-30-asset-recovery-legislation-best-practices","Quick Guide 30: Asset recovery legislation – best practices",2622,"Asset recovery tools are integral to combatting corruption, organised crime, sanctions evasion and other profit-motivated crimes. However, in many states, the range of asset recovery tools available to law enforcement and criminal justice agencies is limited. \n\nThis quick guide examines the established good practices in asset recovery legislation as well as less conventional, broader measures. It shows how states can widen their asset recovery toolkit and increase the potential for asset recovery success. \n\nIt is drawn from a comparative study of good practices in asset recovery legislation in selected Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) participating States, published as Working Paper 51 in March 2024 by the Basel Institute on Governance and OSCE. \n\n### About this Quick Guide\n\nThis work is licensed under a \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License\u003C\u002Fa>. It is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Quick Guide series, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications?type=2428\">ISSN 2673-5229\u003C\u002Fa>.",[21],[38],"2024-05-07","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fafbbcd0b-c295-4832-83bf-742d000ed004?width=600&height=840","Basel Institute on Governance ",[523],{"url":524,"caption":525},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fwp-51"," View full Working Paper 51",[],[528],{"authors_id":529},{"id":530,"name":531},306,"Andrew Dornbierer",[],[534,536],{"tags_id":535},{"id":282,"name":283},{"tags_id":537},{"id":444,"name":445},[539],2386,[31],[33],"2024-05-07T10:05:12.000Z","2026-06-02T14:08:45.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fquick-guide-30-asset-recovery-legislation-best-practices",1780676550858]