What role could tax investigations play in detecting, investigating and prosecuting cases of illegal wildlife trade? Potentially a large one, with the right coordination and capacity.
The United Kingdom’s Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act received Royal Assent on 15 March 2022.
Enrichissement illicite fournit un guide complet des lois sur l'enrichissement illicite et de leur application pour poursuivre les actifs inexpliqués et récupérer les produits de la corruption et d'autres crimes. Le livre, qui est disponible gratuitement, couvre les lois pénales et civiles du monde entier.
We are delighted to have signed a case consultancy agreement with the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption (FICAC).
The agreement enables our International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) and FICAC to cooperate to strengthen the agency’s capacity to identify and recover assets obtained through corruption.
FICAC is Fiji's mandated law enforcement agency to investigate and prosecute corruption, as well as educate society on understanding and reporting corruption. The agency is celebrating its 15th year.
An eight-month training programme for senior leaders of Tanzania and Zanzibar's anti-corruption and economic crimes authorities concluded last week, in the presence of Minister Haroun Ali Suleiman (Zanzibar’s Minister for Constitutional and Legal Affairs) and Didier Chassot (Switzerland’s Ambassador to Tanzania).
Our International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) training team was in the Kenyan capital Nairobi last week, delivering a Financial Investigations and Asset Recovery training course to a multi-agency group of officers responsible for anti-corruption and asset recovery.
Initiatives such as International Women’s Day and the International Gender Champions Network, of which our Managing Director is a member, are helping to shift the needle towards a world free of gender-based discrimination. So are moves to mainstream gender in development programmes, including those focused on anti-corruption.
Part 2 of a guest interview with Aidan Larkin, CEO of Asset Reality. Part 1 covered the scope of illicit activity involving crypto assets and why some States are recovering far more crypto assets than others, plus issues around international and public-private cooperation.
A guest interview with Aidan Larkin, CEO of Asset Reality. Aidan presented on Demystifying crypto asset recovery at the 5th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptocurrencies, a joint conference of the Basel Institute on Governance, Europol and INTERPOL on 8-9 December 2021.