[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":549},["ShallowReactive",2],{"publication-wolfsberg-group":3,"related-wolfsberg-group":119},[4],{"id":5,"status":6,"sort":7,"date_created":8,"date_updated":9,"nid":10,"slug":11,"title":12,"body":13,"citation":14,"language":15,"year":16,"publisher":17,"date_published":18,"external":19,"topic":20,"link_internal":24,"link_external":25,"featured":19,"topics":26,"languages":28,"type":29,"area":7,"programme":7,"websites":7,"summary":7,"pdf_text":7,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"image":31,"countries":42,"tags":43,"pdf":65,"authors":86},2128,"published",null,"2022-04-27T11:57:19.000Z","2026-05-29T22:22:54.000Z",680,"wolfsberg-group","The Wolfsberg Group","This article illustrates an early example of corporate Collective Action, the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wolfsberg-principles.com\u002F\">Wolfsberg Group\u003C\u002Fa>, and charts its development from its inception, in 1999, up to 2012. The Wolfsberg Group is an association of eleven banks that took its name from the Château Wolfsberg where the banks held their first meetings and where they continue to hold their annual forum.\n\nHaving started out with the aim of addressing money laundering risks in private banking, the Wolfsberg Group has since developed a broad range of standards and a diverse program of activities. These address not only its original focus of anti-money laundering, but also other financial crime risks within the financial industry, such as corruption, terrorist financing, and sanctions.\n\nThe phrase “Collective Action” suggests a positive or proactive approach by participants to an initiative with a common goal that, by implication, is acknowledged by the participants from the outset. For the Wolfsberg Group, this was not the case. The spirit of Collective Action developed gradually through the group’s early meetings and the adoption of its working procedures. By now, the notion of Collective Action through consensus is a core principle, but it took time and effort to build up the necessary trust amongst banks that were otherwise competitors. This chapter describes the process that created this trust as well as the past and current work and achievements of the Wolfsberg Group.\n\nThis article was published in \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fnode\u002F178\u002F\">Collective Action: Innovative Strategies to Prevent Corruption\u003C\u002Fa>, Mark Pieth (ed.), 2012, Dike Zurich\u002FSt. Gallen.\n\n ","","English",2012,"Dike Verlag","2012-01-01",false,[21,22,23],"Anti-Money Laundering","Asset Recovery","Collective Action",[],[],[21,27,23],"Asset Recovery and Enforcement",[15],[30],"Article",{"id":32,"storage":33,"filename_disk":34,"filename_download":35,"title":36,"type":37,"created_on":8,"modified_on":8,"charset":7,"filesize":38,"width":39,"height":40,"duration":7,"embed":7,"description":7,"location":7,"tags":7,"metadata":41,"focal_point_x":7,"focal_point_y":7,"tus_id":7,"tus_data":7,"uploaded_on":8},"6ecdb7f9-206c-4d60-89c5-f5138bb1d17f","local","6ecdb7f9-206c-4d60-89c5-f5138bb1d17f.jpg","Pages-from-the-wolfsberg-group.jpg","Pages from 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How does that get into the hands of law enforcement, where it can trigger or inform investigations? And how can we improve the system?\n\nThis Quick Guide gives a brief introduction to public-private partnerships or platforms for financial intelligence sharing. It sets out how they work in practice, and how they can improve the sharing of targeted, useful information between law enforcement and financial institutions.\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>.",[21,22],[129],"Quick Guide","2024-11-25","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F01dea28f-22b8-47cd-bf86-ddee24683c2b?width=600&height=840","Basel Institute on Governance",[],[],[136],{"authors_id":137},{"id":138,"name":139},327,"Simon Marsh",[],[142,146,148],{"tags_id":143},{"id":144,"name":145},1193,"Financial investigations",{"tags_id":147},{"id":63,"name":64},{"tags_id":149},{"id":150,"name":151},1374,"Law enforcement",[153],2416,[21,27],[15],"2024-12-05T14:06:47.000Z","2026-05-31T22:51:55.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fqg34",{"id":160,"slug":161,"title":162,"status":6,"nid":163,"year":164,"body":165,"external":19,"topic":166,"language":15,"type":167,"date_published":168,"image":169,"citation":14,"publisher":170,"link_internal":171,"link_external":172,"authors":176,"countries":181,"tags":186,"pdf":197,"topics":198,"featured":19,"languages":7,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":47,"date_created":199,"user_updated":48,"date_updated":200,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":201},2424,"back-action-how-uk-reviving-unexplained-wealth-orders-academy-bulletin","Back in Action: How the UK is reviving unexplained wealth orders (The Academy Bulletin)",2864,2025,"In an article published in the Fall 2025 issue of the Bulletin of the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Ffinancialcrimelitigators.org\u002F\">International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators\u003C\u002Fa>, Andrew Dornbierer explores the revival of unexplained wealth orders (UWOs) in the United Kingdom.\n\nIntroduced in 2017 as a tool to combat the abuse of UK's markets to launder criminal proceeds, the UWO mechanism suffered a severe setback in 2020. After only a handful of attempts to use it, a decision by the High Court effectively left it sprawled on the canvas.\n\nIn the last year or so, however, the mechanism has slowly started to prove itself. Most recently, the UK's Serious Fraud Office – in its first use of the UK's UWO mechanism – secured GBP 1.1 million from the sale of a property belonging to the ex-wife of a convicted fraudster.\n\nThis article offers a short history of UWOs in the UK. It examines how, after a turbulent start and subsequent amendments to the mechanism, UWOs are now back to being used by UK authorities to tackle illicit financial flows. If applied responsibly, proportionately and in harmony with established legal rights, unexplained wealth orders promise to be a powerful tool in the UK’s fight to recover criminal assets.\n\nThis is the fifth issue of The Academy's Bulletin. It has been established to transmit the work of Academy Fellows, draw attention to matters of importance to the legal community and provide high-level analysis of cutting-edge issues in global financial crime investigations and litigation. The Basel Institute on Governance acts as Secretariat to the Academy.",[22],[30],"2025-11-03","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fc313d2fa-3e1c-43ab-b40e-3e418d819df1?width=600&height=840","International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators",[],[173],{"url":174,"caption":175},"https:\u002F\u002Fedit.financialcrimelitigators.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fb401d6c9-b0e4-4ab9-ad1f-948c567c6ab3.pdf","Fall 2025 Bulletin of the International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators",[177],{"authors_id":178},{"id":179,"name":180},306,"Andrew Dornbierer",[182],{"countries_id":183},{"id":184,"name":185},225,"Ukraine",[187,191,193],{"tags_id":188},{"id":189,"name":190},843,"Asset recovery",{"tags_id":192},{"id":63,"name":64},{"tags_id":194},{"id":195,"name":196},821,"Unexplained wealth",[],[27],"2025-11-03T11:05:50.000Z","2026-05-29T22:23:01.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fback-action-how-uk-reviving-unexplained-wealth-orders-academy-bulletin",{"id":203,"slug":204,"title":205,"status":6,"nid":206,"year":207,"body":208,"external":19,"topic":7,"language":7,"type":209,"date_published":211,"image":212,"citation":213,"publisher":132,"link_internal":214,"link_external":221,"authors":228,"countries":237,"tags":242,"pdf":257,"topics":259,"featured":19,"languages":260,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":48,"date_created":261,"user_updated":262,"date_updated":263,"main_points":264,"short_version":7,"subtitle":265,"link":266},2441,"cs-13","Case Study 13: The Beauty Queen case: non-conviction based forfeiture across borders",2937,2026,"This Case Study analyses how Colombian authorities recovered assets linked to drug trafficking and held in a trust in Guernsey. It sets out the legal tools and procedures in Colombia and in Guernsey that enabled Colombia’s first international recovery under its non-conviction based forfeiture model _Extinción de dominio_. The Case Study highlights lessons for international cooperation between jurisdictions with different forfeiture systems or even legal traditions.\n\nThe International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) at the Basel Institute on Governance provided technical assistance as part of a Memorandum of Understanding with the General Prosecutor’s Office of Colombia.\n\n[**Download Case Study here**](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002F2026-05\u002FCase-Study-13_Beauty-Queen.pdf)\n\nOn 30 November 2023, the Fourth Court of the Specialised Extinción de Dominio Circuit of Colombia ordered the non-conviction based forfeiture of a Guernsey trust account issued by Northern Trust Fiduciary Services (Guernsey) Limited. The beneficiary was María Marcela Serrano Camacho, a Colombian model and former beauty queen.\n\nThe Colombian forfeiture order extinguished property rights over the account – amounting to GBP 361,146 – on the grounds that the funds were the proceeds of drug trafficking offences committed by Efraín Antonio Hernández Ramírez (“Don Efra”), a well-known Colombian drug trafficker, and his former spouse María Serrano in the 1990s.\n\nOn 30 January 2025, following successful mutual legal assistance proceedings between Colombia and the Bailiwick of Guernsey, the two jurisdictions concluded an asset sharing agreement for the repatriation of the confiscated assets.\n\nThis marked Colombia’s first successful international recovery through non-conviction based forfeiture.\n\nThis Case Study examines how early and effective coordination between Colombia and Guernsey enabled the identification, freezing, forfeiture and repatriation of the assets. It analyses the legal framework underpinning Colombia's Extinción de dominio regime and how it was applied, leading to the forfeiture of the Guernsey acccount. It also describes the procedural mechanisms used in Guernsey to execute foreign non-conviction based forfeiture orders.\n\nThe interaction between the authorities in both jurisdictions offers valuable lessons and examples of good practices.\n\n**Main takeaways of the case:**\n\n- Early and trust-based international cooperation is decisive\n- Non-conviction based forfeiture is indispensable when criminal routes are closed\n- Identifying beneficial ownership is central to effective asset recovery\n- Direct enforcement of foreign forfeiture orders increases efficiency and legal certainty\n- Asset sharing agreements strengthen cooperation incentives\n\nThe Case Study can be read alongside [Policy Brief 16](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fpb-16): \"Enforcing foreign non-conviction based forfeiture orders: FATF standards and asset recovery practice in Latin America and financial centres\".\n\n### About this Case Study\n\nThis publication is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Case Study series, [ISSN 2813-3900](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fcase-studies). It is licensed for sharing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License ([CC BYNC-ND 4.0](https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F)).\n\nThe Case Study series offers practitioners insights into interesting and precedent-setting cases involving corruption and asset recovery.\n\nThis is a publication of the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) at the Basel Institute on Governance. ICAR receives core funding from the Governments of Jersey, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and the UK.\n\n**Disclaimer**: This Case Study is intended for general informational purposes and does not constitute and\u002For substitute legal or other professional advice. The contents are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or the official position of the Basel Institute on Governance, its donors and partners, or the University of Basel.\n",[210],"Case Study","2026-03-31","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F6f1661b8-eab6-4ce0-902d-f6c97f85dd29?width=600&height=840","Solórzano, Oscar, and Diana Cordero. 2026. ‘The Beauty Queen case: non-conviction based forfeiture of criminal assets across borders. Lessons learned from Colombia–Guernsey cooperation.’ Case Study 13, Basel Institute on Governance. Available at: [baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fcs-13](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fcs-13).",[215,218],{"url":216,"caption":217},"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fcolombiaguernsey-cooperation-leads-to-successful-non-conviction-based-forfeiture-of-illicit-assets-2716","Read related blog",{"url":219,"caption":220},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications","Read related Policy Brief 16",[222,225],{"url":223,"caption":224},"https:\u002F\u002Flearn.baselgovernance.org\u002Fcourse\u002Fview.php?id=368","View online on Basel LEARN",{"url":226,"caption":227},"https:\u002F\u002Flearn.baselgovernance.org\u002Fcourse\u002Fview.php?id=72","eLearning course: International Cooperation and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters",[229,233],{"authors_id":230},{"id":231,"name":232},294,"Oscar Solorzano",{"authors_id":234},{"id":235,"name":236},591,"Diana Cordero",[238],{"countries_id":239},{"id":240,"name":241},47,"Colombia",[243,247,251,253,255],{"tags_id":244},{"id":245,"name":246},1379,"Non-conviction based forfeiture",{"tags_id":248},{"id":249,"name":250},822,"International cooperation",{"tags_id":252},{"id":63,"name":64},{"tags_id":254},{"id":150,"name":151},{"tags_id":256},{"id":189,"name":190},[258],2495,[27],[15],"2026-06-01T22:10:26.000Z","b0662e2a-864d-4888-a1b7-4342b7570b30","2026-06-02T14:22:13.000Z","- Early and trust-based international cooperation is decisive\n- Non-conviction based forfeiture is indispensable when criminal routes are closed\n- Identifying beneficial ownership is central to effective asset recovery\n- Direct enforcement of foreign forfeiture orders increases efficiency and legal certainty\n- Asset sharing agreements strengthen cooperation incentives","Lessons learned from Colombia–Guernsey cooperation","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fcs-13",{"id":268,"slug":269,"title":270,"status":6,"nid":271,"year":207,"body":272,"external":19,"topic":7,"language":7,"type":273,"date_published":211,"image":275,"citation":7,"publisher":132,"link_internal":276,"link_external":279,"authors":281,"countries":284,"tags":285,"pdf":294,"topics":296,"featured":19,"languages":297,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":48,"date_created":261,"user_updated":48,"date_updated":298,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":299,"link":300},2442,"pb-16","Policy Brief 16: Enforcing foreign non-conviction based forfeiture orders",2947,"This Policy Brief analyses emerging international standards aimed at addressing recurring challenges in judicial practice with regard to the enforcement of non-conviction based forfeiture orders issued by foreign states. It focuses in particular on the historical absence of a binding obligation on requested states to cooperate in such cases and, where cooperation is available, on the structural tension between direct and indirect enforcement models.\n\n[**Download Policy Brief here**](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002F2026-03\u002FPolicy-Brief-16_Enforcing-foreign-NCBF-orders.pdf)\n\nRevisions in 2023 to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Recommendations 4 and 38 seek to clarify and strengthen states’ cooperation in the enforcement of foreign forfeiture orders. In this context, the recognition and execution of foreign non-conviction based forfeiture orders are central components of the evolving international asset recovery framework.\n\nThrough analysis and case studies involving Latin American states and international financial centres, this Policy Brief demonstrates that the choice of procedural model for enforcing foreign forfeiture orders – direct or indirect – has significant implications, while acknowledging the competing legal and institutional interests involved.\n\nIn line with FATF Recommendation 38, the Policy Brief argues in favour of direct enforcement in the requested state, based on the facts established by the foreign authority. This promotes efficiency, legal certainty and mutual trust. Indirect enforcement models that may require domestic investigations by the requested state, on the other hand, often lead to delays, duplication and increased costs, which hinders international asset recovery efforts.\n\nThe analysis provides empirical insight into how the revised FATF standards address practical deficiencies and the implications for judicial practice in requested states. For the Latin American context, the Policy Brief suggests to go beyond technical compliance of domestic non-conviction based forfeiture regimes with the FATF standards to strengthen the effectiveness of cross-border enforcement in practice.\n\nThis Policy Brief can be read alongside [Case Study 13](http:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fcs-13): “The Beauty Queen case: non-conviction based forfeiture across borders. Lessons learned from Colombia–Guernsey cooperation.”\n\n### About this Policy Brief\n\nThis publication is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Policy Brief series [ISSN 2624-9669](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications?type\\[]=257). You may freely share or republish it under a Creative Commons [BY-NC-ND 4.0](https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F) licence.\n\nIt is a publication of the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) at the Basel Institute on Governance. ICAR receives core funding from the Governments of Jersey, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and the UK.\n\n**Disclaimer**: This Policy Brief is intended for general informational purposes and does not constitute and\u002For substitute legal or other professional advice. The 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**Suggested citation**: Solórzano, Oscar. 2026. \"Enforcing foreign non-conviction based forfeiture orders: FATF standards and asset recovery practice in Latin America and financial centres.\" Policy Brief 16, Basel Institute on Governance. Available at: [baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fpb-16](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fpb-16).",[274],"Policy Brief","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Ff866220c-dddd-41b3-a45e-c2d7992d39e1?width=600&height=840",[277],{"url":219,"caption":278},"Read related Case Study 13",[280],{"url":226,"caption":227},[282],{"authors_id":283},{"id":231,"name":232},[],[286,288,290,292],{"tags_id":287},{"id":245,"name":246},{"tags_id":289},{"id":249,"name":250},{"tags_id":291},{"id":63,"name":64},{"tags_id":293},{"id":150,"name":151},[295],2496,[27],[15],"2026-06-02T14:16:22.000Z","FATF standards and asset recovery practice in Latin America and financial 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produced by U4 and the Basel Institute on Governance through its Green Corruption programme.\n\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002F2026-02\u002FAddressing-conflicts-of-interest-and-corruption-in-indonesia-s-energy-transition_U4-Issue.pdf\">Download publication here\u003C\u002Fa>.\n\n### About the paper\n\nConflicts of interest and corruption in Indonesia's political economy pose significant risks to its energy transition, including the Just Energy Transition Partnership. Existing legal and institutional frameworks are fragmented, inconsistently applied, and often fail to address the risk of state capture by powerful political and economic actors, especially in the extractive and energy sectors.\n\nThe reliance on fossil fuel industries for political financing and the monopolistic nature of state-owned entities further complicate the shift to a low- or no-carbon system, despite the country's ambitious renewable energy targets.\n\nPotential pathways to greater anti-corruption resilience lie in improvements to beneficial ownership transparency and strengthening regulation, monitoring and sanctioning of conflict of interest violations.\n",[308],"Green Corruption",[310],"Report","2026-02-24","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fd97f2ca5-300d-45c9-9de9-33152b72f96c?width=600&height=840","U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre",[],[316,319],{"url":317,"caption":318},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.u4.no\u002Fpublications\u002Faddressing-conflicts-of-interest-and-corruption-in-indonesia-s-energy-transition"," View on U4 website",{"url":320,"caption":321},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.u4.no\u002Fblog\u002Fimproving-anti-corruption-resilience-in-indonesia-s-energy-transition"," Read related U4 blog",[323,327,331,335],{"authors_id":324},{"id":325,"name":326},581,"Robert Forster",{"authors_id":328},{"id":329,"name":330},582,"Aled Williams",{"authors_id":332},{"id":333,"name":334},523,"Lakso Anindito",{"authors_id":336},{"id":337,"name":338},579,"Dr Amanda Cabrejo le Roux",[340],{"countries_id":341},{"id":342,"name":343},99,"Indonesia",[345,349,351,355,359,363],{"tags_id":346},{"id":347,"name":348},982,"Anti-corruption",{"tags_id":350},{"id":63,"name":64},{"tags_id":352},{"id":353,"name":354},804,"Natural resources",{"tags_id":356},{"id":357,"name":358},1371,"Public governance",{"tags_id":360},{"id":361,"name":362},1236,"Compliance",{"tags_id":364},{"id":365,"name":366},973,"Corruption",[368],2489,[308],"2026-02-27T15:11:31.000Z","2026-05-23T20:08:18.000Z","- Corruption and conflicts of interest are embedded in the energy transition process due to the strong links between political power, private wealth (especially from extractive industries) and public office holders.\n- Existing anti-corruption regulations are often vague, fragmented across different legal instruments, and suffer from inconsistent enforcement, which creates loopholes susceptible to manipulation.\n- Progress in renewable energy uptake is slowed by the enduring influence and interests of fossil fuel incumbents who benefit from subsidies that keep coal an artificially cheap and viable energy source.\n- The Just Energy Transition Partnership is vulnerable to misallocations due to concentrated decision-making power, limited transparency in project selection and insufficient involvement of national anti-corruption bodies and civil society in its planning.\n- Improving transparency of beneficial ownership and strengthening the monitoring and sanctioning of conflict of interest violations are possible pathways to build greater anti-corruption resilience, though these institutional efforts alone are insufficient to fully address state capture dynamics.","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Faddressing-conflicts-interest-and-corruption-indonesias-energy-transition",{"id":375,"slug":376,"title":377,"status":6,"nid":378,"year":164,"body":379,"external":19,"topic":380,"language":15,"type":381,"date_published":382,"image":383,"citation":384,"publisher":132,"link_internal":385,"link_external":389,"authors":390,"countries":393,"tags":396,"pdf":405,"topics":407,"featured":19,"languages":7,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":408,"sort":7,"user_created":47,"date_created":409,"user_updated":48,"date_updated":410,"main_points":411,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":412},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.",[308],[210],"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>.",[386],{"url":387,"caption":388},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications?type=Case%20Study"," View all Case Studies",[],[391],{"authors_id":392},{"id":333,"name":334},[394],{"countries_id":395},{"id":342,"name":343},[397,399,403],{"tags_id":398},{"id":63,"name":64},{"tags_id":400},{"id":401,"name":402},1303,"Environment",{"tags_id":404},{"id":144,"name":145},[406],2483,[308],"\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":414,"slug":415,"title":416,"status":6,"nid":417,"year":164,"body":418,"external":19,"topic":419,"language":15,"type":420,"date_published":421,"image":422,"citation":14,"publisher":132,"link_internal":423,"link_external":424,"authors":428,"countries":429,"tags":430,"pdf":435,"topics":437,"featured":19,"languages":7,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":47,"date_created":438,"user_updated":48,"date_updated":439,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":440},2429,"basel-aml-index-2025","Basel AML Index 2025",2893,"This is the 14th annual Public Edition report of the Basel AML Index, an independent, data-based ranking and risk assessment tool for money laundering and related financial crime risks around the world.\n\nThe Basel AML Index provides risk scores for jurisdictions based on data from 17 publicly accessible sources such as the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), Transparency International and the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime. The risk scores cover five domains considered to contribute to a high money laundering risk:\n\n\n- Quality of AML\u002FCFT\u002FCPF framework\n- Corruption and fraud risks\n- Financial transparency and standards\n- Public transparency and accountability\n- Political and legal risks\n\n\nThe Basel AML Index is developed and maintained by the Basel Institute on Governance through its \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fnode\u002F25\">International Centre for Asset Recovery\u003C\u002Fa> (ICAR). ICAR receives core funding from the Governments of Jersey, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and the UK.",[21,22],[310],"2025-12-08","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F19665416-644c-4110-9642-07b31f849971?width=600&height=840",[],[425],{"url":426,"caption":427},"https:\u002F\u002Findex.baselgovernance.org\u002F"," View Basel AML Index website",[],[],[431],{"tags_id":432},{"id":433,"name":434},1346,"Basel AML Index",[436],2484,[21,27],"2025-12-08T11:05:33.000Z","2026-05-29T22:23:02.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fbasel-aml-index-2025",{"id":442,"slug":443,"title":444,"status":6,"nid":445,"year":125,"body":446,"external":19,"topic":447,"language":15,"type":448,"date_published":449,"image":450,"citation":14,"publisher":451,"link_internal":452,"link_external":456,"authors":457,"countries":458,"tags":459,"pdf":464,"topics":466,"featured":19,"languages":467,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":47,"date_created":468,"user_updated":48,"date_updated":469,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":470},2349,"race-against-time-europol-basel-institute-governance-recommendations-preventing-and","A race against time: Europol – Basel Institute on Governance recommendations on preventing and combating the criminal use of cryptocurrencies",2619,"These recommendations follow the 7th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptocurrencies on 26–27 October 2023. The conference was co-organised by Europol and the Basel Institute on Governance and took place in hybrid format at Europol’s headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands. \n\nThe five recommendations highlight the need for accelerated action in order to combat the use of crypto assets, as well the allocation of more resources, better training and better collaboration.\n\nThey are to: \n\n\n- Accelerate innovation for investigative and monitoring tools \n- Boost enforcement capacity and training\n- Reorganise to foster collaboration and prioritisation \n- Engage proactively in multi-sector collaborations  \n- Consider the whole chain, from prevention to facilitators \n",[21,22],[310],"2024-05-08","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F0de3625e-aacc-4db2-93f0-2e17d0a32c75?width=600&height=840","Europol and Basel Institute on Governance",[453],{"url":454,"caption":455},"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fshaping-an-international-response-against-the-criminal-misuse-of-cryptocurrencies-2525"," View conference summary",[],[],[],[460],{"tags_id":461},{"id":462,"name":463},854,"Virtual assets",[465],2388,[21,27],[15],"2024-05-08T10:04:39.000Z","2026-06-02T14:08:46.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Frace-against-time-europol-basel-institute-governance-recommendations-preventing-and",{"id":472,"slug":473,"title":474,"status":6,"nid":475,"year":125,"body":476,"external":19,"topic":477,"language":15,"type":478,"date_published":479,"image":480,"citation":14,"publisher":170,"link_internal":481,"link_external":482,"authors":486,"countries":489,"tags":498,"pdf":499,"topics":500,"featured":19,"languages":501,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":47,"date_created":502,"user_updated":48,"date_updated":503,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":504},2380,"james-stone-case-perus-fight-recover-assets-academy-bulletin","The James Stone case: Peru’s fight to recover assets (The Academy Bulletin)",2733,"In an article published in the Fall 2024 issue of the Bulletin of the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Ffinancialcrimelitigators.org\u002F\">International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators\u003C\u002Fa>, Oscar Solórzano describes an asset recovery case between Peru and Luxembourg involving a businessman named James Stone.\n\nIt provides insight into some of the challenges that some States face in recovering proceeds of corruption from international financial centres, despite the binding rules and soft laws adopted in recent years. It looks at both the mutual legal assistance (MLA) process and the legal defences raised by the account holder – who admitted to the corrupt dealings and has since fled to the United States.\n\nThe case offers important lessons for States either holding or seeking to recover assets linked to historical acts of corruption.\n\nThis is the fourth issue of The Academy's Bulletin. It has been established to transmit the work of Academy Fellows, draw attention to matters of importance to the legal community and provide high-level analysis of cutting-edge issues in global financial crime investigations and litigation. The Basel Institute on Governance acts as Secretariat to the Academy.",[22],[30],"2024-12-11","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Faab741bb-d811-44ec-bb32-83c1123d75d3?width=600&height=840",[],[483],{"url":484,"caption":485},"https:\u002F\u002Fedit.financialcrimelitigators.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F5d055679-91be-4304-aec7-cf88c8226ada.pdf","Fall 2024 Bulletin of the International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators",[487],{"authors_id":488},{"id":231,"name":232},[490,494],{"countries_id":491},{"id":492,"name":493},171,"Peru",{"countries_id":495},{"id":496,"name":497},132,"Luxembourg",[],[],[27],[15],"2024-12-11T17:05:23.000Z","2026-05-29T22:22:53.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fjames-stone-case-perus-fight-recover-assets-academy-bulletin",{"id":506,"slug":507,"title":508,"status":6,"nid":509,"year":125,"body":510,"external":19,"topic":511,"language":512,"type":513,"date_published":514,"image":515,"citation":14,"publisher":516,"link_internal":517,"link_external":518,"authors":519,"countries":538,"tags":541,"pdf":542,"topics":544,"featured":19,"languages":545,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":47,"date_created":546,"user_updated":48,"date_updated":547,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":548},2358,"la-extincion-del-dominio-de-bienes-instrumentalizados","La extinción del dominio de bienes instrumentalizados",2666,"This publication (in Spanish) focuses on the use of non-conviction based forfeiture legislation in Peru (Extinción de Dominio) to recover instrumentalities of crime. It is a collaborative effort of asset recovery experts of the Basel Institute on Governance under the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gfpsubnacional.pe\u002F\">Programa GFP Subnacional\u003C\u002Fa> or Subnational Public Finance Management Strengthening Programme in Peru, funded by the Swiss SECO Cooperation.\n\n### Introducción\n\nEl Programa de Fortalecimiento de la Gestión de Finanzas Públicas a nivel Subnacional en el Perú (2024-2028) busca fortalecer las capacidades de los funcionarios encargados del cumplimiento de la ley, especialmente aquellos que participan en los procesos de recuperación de activos en los niveles central y subnacional.\n\nEn los últimos años, la recuperación de activos ha ocupado un importante lugar en la política criminal peruana, especialmente mediante la dación del Decreto Legislativo 1373 - Decreto Legislativo sobre Extinción de Dominio, que incorpora al ordenamiento jurídico peruano un poderoso instrumento para contrarrestar el patrimonio criminal. La consolidación de esta herramienta precisa de conocimientos especializados en la materia, así como la correcta interpretación de las categorías y presupuestos de la extinción de dominio, en armonía con los principios del Estado Constitucional de Derecho que la alberga.\n\nCon miras a la consecución de este objetivo, el Programa GFP Subnacional reconoce el importante rol de la doctrina jurídica como fuente mediata para aliviar los cuestionamientos que surgen en la aplicación de las leyes, y para orientar el conocimiento hacia la correcta adopción de decisiones. Por ello, esta publicación académica es un producto de conocimiento creado con la finalidad de servir como insumo teórico y práctico en la aplicación de la extinción de dominio.\n\nEn su primer número, con el fin de coadyuvar en el proceso de especialización de los operadores de justicia, esta publicación aborda diversas cuestiones jurídicas acerca de la recuperación, a través de la extinción de dominio, de los instrumentos empleados en la comisión de actividades ilícitas, dada su disposición para la lesión de bienes jurídicos protegidos por nuestro ordenamiento.",[22],"Spanish",[30],"2024-05-24","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F69c174c1-5ac4-423c-a873-194194f45033?width=600&height=840","Basel Institute on Governance; Programa GPF Subnacional",[],[],[520,522,526,530,534],{"authors_id":521},{"id":231,"name":232},{"authors_id":523},{"id":524,"name":525},542,"Walther Delgado",{"authors_id":527},{"id":528,"name":529},543,"Dr Erick Guimaray",{"authors_id":531},{"id":532,"name":533},544,"Sergio Jiménez",{"authors_id":535},{"id":536,"name":537},545,"Sergio Rodriguez",[539],{"countries_id":540},{"id":492,"name":493},[],[543],2397,[27],[512],"2024-08-20T16:05:02.000Z","2026-05-29T22:22:50.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fla-extincion-del-dominio-de-bienes-instrumentalizados",1780676551119]