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tackling green corruption can help us get ahead in the race to net zero","Blog","Juhani Grossmann and Amanda Cabrejo le Roux explain the strategic re-focusing of our Green Corruption programme on energy and climate:\n\n### What is “green” corruption and why does it matter?\n\nGreen corruption refers to corruption and other financial crimes and governance failures that harm the environment and hinder global efforts to combat climate change.\n\nIt’s the reason crimes such as illicit deforestation, mining and wildlife trade continue to be multimillion-dollar illegal industries making organised criminals rich at the expense of our planet and the livelihoods of local communities. Green corruption also diverts crucial investments intended for renewable energy and other climate-related projects.\n\nAdapting to humanity’s changing energy needs in a just and sustainable manner are challenging enough. We cannot afford to let corruption undermine these generational challenges.\n\n### What are some key achievements of the programme so far?\n\nWe are proud that since its launch in 2018, the Green Corruption programme has contributed to significant strides in tackling corruption affecting the environment.\n\nOur programme started with an enforcement focus: applying “follow the money” approaches to environmental crimes like illegal wildlife trade and illegal logging. In practice, that means mentoring and training law enforcement officers of national partner agencies to investigate financial transactions that fuel environmental crimes, including between criminal groups and corrupt facilitators. And ideally, to seize and confiscate illicit profits or assets used in the crimes.\n\nThat’s the only way to get beyond the low-level perpetrators – such as poachers – to the high-level facilitators and organised crime networks. And the only way to take the profit out of the crime, reducing the incentives to engage in it.\n\nAt the end of 2024, assets worth around CHF 29.6 million were being targeted in 56 cases directly supported by our advisors. We had quite a few “firsts” – like Uganda’s first ever indictment for tax evasion and money laundering against a wildlife trafficking syndicate, Malawi’s first ever corruption cases related to natural resource crimes, Peru’s confiscation of over CHF 3 million in assets related to forestry and gold trafficking, and Indonesia’s first ever conviction on money laundering in relation to an illegal logging case.\n\nBehind the headlines lie many more positive steps towards changing mindsets and the priorities of law enforcement agencies to go after the finances of environmental criminals.\n\nOur prevention work rapidly grew as we and our partners realised the chronic under-investment in building systems that strengthen resilience to corruption in the environmental sector.\n\nGovernment agencies and state-owned enterprises in countries as diverse as Indonesia, Malawi, Ukraine and Bolivia have now begun to systematically assess and address corruption risks that are affecting their ability to carry out their important functions of protecting the environment and natural resources. Our prevention specialists supported these in applying our bespoke [methodology](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fguide-conducting-corruption-risk-assessments-wildlife-law-enforcement-context) of assessing and prioritising corruption risks and implementing targeted mitigation measures. We developed a customised internal controls maturity assessment tool to reflect the historic lack of investment in this space, which meant that mainstream assessment tools were insufficiently granular at the first stage of maturity to reflect nuances and chart paths to growth.\n\nAs result of our partnerships, mitigation measures have been institutionalised in many agencies – for example:\n\n*   in Malawi through the creation of Internal Integrity Committees in environmental agencies;\n*   in Ukraine through the empowerment of anti-corruption officers to participate in key decision-making processes;\n*   in Ecuador by reducing unsupervised discretion in environmental inspections;\n*   in Indonesia in the adoption of conflict of interest regulations in the management of timber sales; and\n*   in Peru through the automation and digitalisation of numerous permitting and licensing processes related to the wood value chain.\n\nAlso pleasing to see are the many collaborations and partnerships that have sprung from our work. In Latin America, for example, forestry officials in [Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fnews\u002Fprotecting-forests-through-corruption-prevention-videos-promising-initiatives-bolivia-ecuador) are now collaborating on protecting the Amazon rainforest through corruption prevention.\n\nStill, targeting and preventing corruption tends to be a lonely effort. So, we have established the [Countering Environmental Corruption Practitioners Forum](https:\u002F\u002Fenvironmental-corruption.org\u002F) together with WWF, TRAFFIC and Transparency International as a support network, and it has now grown to over 800 members and four working groups. There are frequent meetings and collaborations between practitioners dedicated to tackling corruption and improving governance, and those specialised in environmental conservation or climate initiatives.\n\nIt’s a sign there’s much appetite and energy for action against green corruption!\n\n### Why is now the time to focus on the energy transition?\n\nWhatever happens in these volatile times, one thing is certain: we’ll continue to see growing demands for energy transition and climate mitigation and adaptation.\n\nThe urgency of tackling the energy transition, and the rapid increase in investments from both the public and private sectors, leaves the door wide open to criminals and the corrupt seeking to profit at the expense of investors and donors – as well as the planet.\n\nA clear example in this space is the growing geopolitical centrality of critical minerals and rare earths. The rapid rise in demand has been accompanied by particularly fragile governance structures, intense political and economic subsidies, and even warfare. Our experience shows that these are all breeding grounds for corruption. We are therefore prioritising efforts to analyse and mitigate corruption risks in this space in Bolivia, Indonesia and Ukraine.\n\nEnsuring that the energy transition is safeguarded from corruption is essential for achieving net-zero goals. As outlined in our Working Paper on [good governance and the just transition](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fwp-53), corrupt practices can jeopardise renewable energy investments and hinder the development of clean energy infrastructure.\n\nRapidly emerging market-based solutions to stimulate responsible behaviour, such as carbon offsets, are also affected by weak governance systems and opportunities for corruption. The fast-evolving and highly technical nature of these activities only increases this risk.\n\nCorruption risks similarly threaten the effectiveness of climate mitigation and adaptation efforts. If funds are embezzled, used fraudulently or diverted to benefit powerful elites, that’s bad for donors and investors. And it’s bad for local communities, many of which are also directly affected by climate change.\n\nOn the other hand, there are opportunities. Using corruption risk management tools and enhancing enforcement capabilities can help companies and governments to create thriving, profitable supply chains of critical minerals needed for renewable energy facilities, electric vehicles and the like.\n\n### What does this shift in priorities mean in practice?\n\nThrough our Green Corruption programme, we are adapting to this evolving landscape by sharpening our focus on transition minerals and the renewable energy sector.\n\nWe will continue our dual approach of prevention and enforcement, working closely with long-standing partners in Ukraine, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malawi, Uganda, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador.\n\nSome things you might see us doing in the next years:\n\n*   Strengthening transparency and anti-corruption measures in the extraction and trade of lithium, nickel, germanium and other minerals and rare earths essential for the energy transition.\n*   Customising financial investigation and asset recovery tools to the specifics 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It has a direct impact on the accelerating rate of biodiversity loss and deprives local communities of sustainable livelihoods.\n\nA grant from the UK’s [IWT Challenge Fund](https:\u002F\u002Fiwt.challengefund.org.uk\u002Fproject\u002FXXIWT128) has enabled the Basel Institute’s Green Corruption team to extend its work in a number of countries vulnerable to the illegal wildlife trade. By providing training, mentoring on live cases and fostering communities of practice, we are advancing the use of “follow-the-money” techniques to combat the criminal networks operating in this field.\n\n### An underused approach\n\nThe [follow-the-money approach](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fquick-guide-15-following-money) involves scrutinising transactions to extract evidence about crimes and criminal networks. It is widely recognised for its value in investigating and prosecuting profit-driven crime as well as confiscating the proceeds and instrumentalities of crime. However it is still underused, particularly in relation to environmental crime.\n\nLike other transnational crime networks, environmental crime syndicates exploit legal, transport and financial systems to facilitate crimes and evade detection, moving money and goods in [complex networks](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fresearch-case-4) around the world. But the use of these systems is also the criminals’ Achilles heel – the size and sophistication of their networks create a significant footprint and enable investigators with the right skills to trace their financial flows. \n\nOur programme aims to capitalise on this opportunity by strengthening capacity in follow-the money-techniques, encouraging cross-border collaboration and providing opportunities for peer learning.\n\n### Training investigators to trace funds\n\nBuilding capacity for these techniques in the environmental field is the foundation of this initiative. This is achieved through a combination of intensive training in financial investigations and asset recovery, and in-person mentoring by locally based advisors. This face-to-face, tailored support can help officers to translate new knowledge into practice, especially when resources are limited.\n\nWe now have local teams working with government agencies in countries directly impacted by the illegal trade in wildlife and related environmental crimes:\n\n*   In Madagascar, where several species of fauna and flora are under extreme threat from the illegal wildlife trade and illegal logging. The [seizure of tens of thousands of radiated tortoises](https:\u002F\u002Fnews.mongabay.com\u002F2018\u002F10\u002Fthousands-of-radiated-tortoises-seized-from-traffickers-in-madagascar\u002F) from traffickers in 2018 is just one example of the massive and organised scale of these operations.\n*   In Peru and Bolivia, where the jaguar population is classified on the [International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.iucnredlist.org\u002Fes\u002Fsearch\u002Fgrid?taxonomies=117957&searchType=species) as “near threatened” partly as a result of the illegal trade in this coveted species.\n*   In Uganda, which is a transit hub for wildlife products, including ivory and pangolin scales, and a centre of complex financial flows in Africa and beyond.\n*   And in Indonesia, where illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing threatens marine ecosystems and affects livelihoods.\n\n### Strengthening the network\n\nA second pillar of the IWT Challenge Fund project is to create a community of experts and advisors on follow-the-money approaches in the environmental sphere. Through virtual roundtables with other IWT Challenge Fund grantees and civil society organisations from around the world, we are collectively working to increase the use of financial investigations and asset recovery in the fight against illegal wildlife trade.\n\nAs well as the benefits of peer learning and support, building this community will help to generate “surge” capacity to investigate and take down major environmental crime syndicates.\n\n### Knowledge sharing\n\nThese efforts align with the establishment of a dedicated [Follow-the-Money Working Group](https:\u002F\u002Fenvironmental-corruption.org\u002Fworking-groups\u002Ffollow-the-money) in 2022 as part of the Countering Environmental Corruption Practitioners Forum – an initiative of the Basel Institute, WWF, Transparency International and TRAFFIC. Led by our Green Corruption team, the Working Group has already been instrumental in facilitating knowledge exchange through workshops on various follow-the-money topics, including closed case reviews, recent trends and proactive financial analysis.\n\nAn additional sub-group made up exclusively of law enforcement professionals allows peer learning among prosecutors and investigators who are receiving mentoring in our priority countries. These meet virtually to share their experiences and challenges.\n\n### Increasing risk for criminals, and reach for practitioners\n\nAs long as environmental crime remains a high-profit and low-risk activity, we will never succeed in combating it. Nor will we succeed without networks of skilled practitioners that reach as far as those of the crime syndicates.\n\nThe twin pillars of this [IWT Challenge Fund](https:\u002F\u002Fiwt.challengefund.org.uk\u002F) project – building both technical capacity for financial investigations and a broad follow-the-money practitioner network – are therefore crucial steps in strengthening global efforts to protect our wildlife and biodiversity.","2024-05-24",[23],"building-follow-the-money-skills-and-networks-to-target-environmental-crime-syndicates-2631",[508,509,510],"Training","Anti-corruption 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programme on financial investigations and asset recovery gets underway in Kosovo ","Kosovan financial investigators, police, prosecutors and judges have completed the first phase of an intensive Train-the-Trainer (TTT) programme on financial investigations and asset recovery.\n\nLed by our International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) [training team](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fasset-recovery\u002Ftraining-programmes) in conjunction with UNDP and the Kosovo Judicial Academy, the five-phase TTT programme aims to result in four or five ICAR Certified Trainers while simultaneously training other local participants in the process.\n\nFollowing their certification, the Kosovan trainers will go on to deliver the training to their counterparts as a formal part of Kosovo’s judicial training programme.\n\n### Supporting Kosovo’s anti-corruption efforts\n\nThe five-day training workshop, which took place in Prizren, Kosovo from 16–20 May 2022, was part of the Support to Anti-Corruption Efforts in Kosovo ([SAEK III](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.undp.org\u002Fkosovo\u002Fpress-releases\u002Flaunch-third-phase-undp%E2%80%99s-support-anti-corruption-efforts-kosovo-saek-project-2020-2024)) project of UNDP Kosovo.\n\nThe Basel Institute is an implementing partner of the project, which seeks to reduce corruption in Kosovo by strengthening monitoring and oversight mechanisms of institutions to perform in an efficient, transparent, accountable and gender-sensitive manner. It is funded  by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) office in Kosovo and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).\n\nThe TTT programme is an integral part of our efforts to sustainably enhance the capacity of investigators and prosecutors in Kosovo to successfully investigate and prosecute corruption and money laundering cases, and recover assets. It follows a [February 2020 training programme](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fnews\u002Fkosovan-anti-corruption-officials-explore-new-asset-confiscation-law-during-icar-training) on the same topic, in which the 25 participants were specifically challenged to make use of Kosovo’s recent Law of Extended Powers on Confiscation of Assets.\n\n### Why financial investigations training?\n\nA financial investigation is an important tool in detecting money laundering, terrorist financing and other serious crimes, as well as in enabling the freezing, seizure and confiscation of the proceeds of crime. Financial investigation in complex corruption and money laundering cases requires specialist skills and techniques in intelligence gathering, prosecution strategies and asset tracing, among others.\n\nOf these techniques, one of the judges at the May 2022 training was particularly complimentary about [Source and Application analysis](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fquick-guide-22-analysing-suspects-financial-affairs-corruption-case), a method to organise and present financial evidence gathered during an investigation in a way that highlights or identifies illicit or unknown income.\n\nPutting such skills and techniques into practice requires a thorough knowledge of relevant Kosovan legislation, and a deep understanding of the legal and practical processes and procedures for recovering assets abroad.\n\nTo tie these elements together, the centrepiece of the ICAR training programme is an extensive hands-on practical exercise in which the participants actually conduct a Kosovo-specific simulated investigation.\n\n### Learn more\n\n*   Find out about our [ICAR training team](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fasset-recovery\u002Ftraining-programmes) and unique methodology, and download the current brochure in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese.\n*   Learn more about the Basel Institute’s [cooperation with the Office of the Chief Prosecutor of Kosovo](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fnews\u002Fnew-cooperation-kosovos-office-chief-prosecutor-asset-recovery-undp-support) under the SAEK programme.\n*   For a brief introduction to Source and Application analysis, see this [Quick guide to analysing a suspect’s financial affairs in a corruption case](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fquick-guide-22-analysing-suspects-financial-affairs-corruption-case). More in-depth guidance is in the step-by-step [Guide to proving illicit enrichment using financial investigation and Source and Application of Funds analysis](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fproving-illicit-enrichment-using-financial-investigation-and-source-and-application) and our self-paced [eLearning course on Source and Application of Funds analysis](https:\u002F\u002Flearn.baselgovernance.org\u002Fcourse\u002Fview.php?id=17), available in English and Ukrainian.","2022-05-24",[619],"Asset Recovery","train-the-trainer-programme-on-financial-investigations-and-asset-recovery-gets-underway-in-kosovo-2225",[508],2225,[624],"Asset Recovery and Enforcement",[508],[314],{"id":628,"storage":26,"filename_disk":629,"filename_download":319,"title":615,"type":320,"created_on":630,"modified_on":631,"charset":14,"filesize":632,"width":323,"height":633,"duration":14,"embed":14,"description":14,"location":14,"tags":14,"metadata":634,"focal_point_x":14,"focal_point_y":14,"tus_id":14,"tus_data":14,"uploaded_on":630},"ab8d1282-05c1-4b78-8255-81f49269ad92","ab8d1282-05c1-4b78-8255-81f49269ad92.webp","2025-05-12T21:16:41.000Z","2025-05-12T21:16:42.000Z",83740,1050,{},[636],{"id":637,"news_id":638,"countries_id":652},7255,{"id":612,"status":13,"user_created":331,"date_created":613,"user_updated":639,"date_updated":614,"title":615,"type":502,"body":616,"image":628,"date":617,"topic":640,"slug":620,"activity":641,"nid":622,"topics":642,"activities":643,"programme":14,"area":14,"websites":644,"translation_of":14,"language":14,"countries":645,"tags":646,"authors":648,"images":649,"translations":650,"content":651},"3d9ff205-1640-4f34-b5b6-86977f51bbd6",[619],[508],[624],[508],[314],[637],[647],5747,[],[],[],[],{"id":653,"name":654,"code":655,"latitude":656,"longitude":657},240,"Kosovo","XK",42.60264,20.90298,[659],{"id":647,"news_id":660,"tags_id":672},{"id":612,"status":13,"user_created":331,"date_created":613,"user_updated":639,"date_updated":614,"title":615,"type":502,"body":616,"image":628,"date":617,"topic":661,"slug":620,"activity":662,"nid":622,"topics":663,"activities":664,"programme":14,"area":14,"websites":665,"translation_of":14,"language":14,"countries":666,"tags":667,"authors":668,"images":669,"translations":670,"content":671},[619],[508],[624],[508],[314],[637],[647],[],[],[],[],{"id":4,"name":5},[],[],[],[],{"id":678,"status":13,"date_created":679,"date_updated":680,"title":681,"type":502,"body":682,"date":683,"topic":684,"slug":685,"activity":686,"nid":687,"topics":688,"activities":689,"programme":14,"area":14,"websites":690,"language":14,"image":691,"translation_of":14,"countries":698,"tags":722,"authors":765,"images":766,"translations":767,"content":768},10463,"2024-08-13T22:01:46.000Z","2026-05-29T22:22:30.000Z","Malawian Police gain essential skills to combat money laundering and recover criminal proceeds","Investigators and prosecutors from the Malawi Police Service (MPS) have gained vital skills in financial investigations and asset recovery during a five-day intensive Financial Investigations and Asset Recovery training programme.\n\nThis is the first time our [ICAR Training Team](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fasset-recovery\u002Ftraining-programmes) has been able to deliver in-person training since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nAs well as members of the MPS, the 23 participants included prosecutors from the Directorate of Public Prosecutions and members of the Judiciary. The training supports the objectives of our multi-year Tackling Serious and Organised Corruption programme in Malawi, which is funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.\n\n### Why do Malawian Police need specialised training?\n\nJust like other Malawian agencies, such as the Financial Intelligence Agency (FIA) or the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), the MPS is increasingly involved in the investigation and prosecution of money laundering cases and the recovery of criminal assets.\n\nHowever, one of the challenges raised during the workshop was a lack of experience and technical expertise to tackle such cases.\n\nThis is not only because of the financial analysis skills required to investigate such cases, but also the transnational nature of large-scale corruption and money laundering. This requires, among other things, the ability to draft proper mutual legal assistance (MLA) requests.\n\n### Learning new skills, applying them in day-to-day work\n\nThe flagship Financial Investigations and Asset Recovery training programme provides participants with the essential skills and simple but yet powerful tools to handle high-profile and complex financial investigations.\n\nOne Malawian investigator commented:\n\n> This is one of the most excellent experiences so far. I have really learned a lot from our lectures, that I will surely use in my cases. I really appreciate the issues to do with money laundering, as currently I am handling a case that has that offence and I did not know how to go about it. I will surely use the knowledge gained this week in my cases as well as my daily work.\n\nThe participants were immersed in a simulated corruption and money laundering investigation during which they actively followed investigative leads, made decisions, analysed and solved problems, using the Malawian legal framework.\n\nThe experience also allowed them to reflect upon the challenges that such investigations entail and possible solutions to overcome them.\n\nA prosecutor stated that:\n\n> The course has added some useful value as far as my daily work as a prosecutor is concerned. From now on, I will be able to guide the investigators who are investigating the financial crimes on how best we can successfully corner the perpetrators. As a prosecutor, I will be able from now on to apply for forfeiture orders wherever it is necessary. I can now easily prosecute financial crime-related offences.\n\n### Learn more\n\n*   The ICAR training team delivers a range of tailored, high-impact training programmes to government partner agencies around the world. [Find out more and download a brochure](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fasset-recovery\u002Ftraining-programmes) in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese.\n*   ICAR also offers free, interactive eLearning courses on critical skills in conducting financial investigations, gathering intelligence and international cooperation, including drafting MLA requests. 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The virtual conference explores trends, strategies and tactics in tackling crimes involving virtual assets.\n\nA joint initiative of the Basel Institute on Governance, INTERPOL and Europol, the annual event now draws hundreds of experts and interested parties from around the world.\n\nThrough presentations, discussions and case studies, the conference participants seek to illuminate how criminals can abuse the virtual asset ecosystem and develop recommendations on what law enforcement, regulators and the private sector can do about it.\n\nAttendance is free but pre-registration is required. Please note that day 2 (8 December) is restricted to law enforcement and related public authorities; attendance is subject to confirmation by the organising committee.\n\n### Agenda and registration\n\n#### 7 December, 12:00–15:30 GMT\n\nOpen to all, this day is dedicated to contrasting perspectives on virtual assets, regulation and compliance from the public and private sectors, media and regulatory bodies. 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trafficking.\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 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","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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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 -->","- 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. 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