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.
Why is international cooperation in asset recovery cases based on illicit enrichment/unexplained wealth laws a particularly challenging issue? This is a question we have received from many corners of the world following our publication last year of an open-access book on Illicit Enrichment: A Guide to Laws Targeting Unexplained Wealth.
A brand new eLearning course on our free Basel LEARN platform introduces the rich possibilities of open-source intelligence for investigations.
Publication
The nexus between corruption and money laundering: deconstructing the Toledo‑Odebrecht network in Peru
The paper targets the nexus between corruption and money laundering. Scholars and practitioners recently observed how offshore financial centers and financial infrastructures have become central in facilitating corruption and other criminal activities.
Offshore vehicles often serve to conceal the connections between business people and politically exposed persons. Secrecy jurisdictions and service providers have emerged as key actors in these illicit schemes.
The paper explores the following questions:
We are pleased to have entered into a new partnership with the Anti-Corruption Committee of the Republic of Armenia, covering assistance with investigating and recovering assets acquired through corruption and other related crimes.
Under the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which was signed on 18 January 2022, our International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) specialists will provide ongoing advice, technical assistance and training to the recently established Anti-Corruption Committee.
Publication
Retrospectividad e imprescriptibilidad en la Extinción de Dominio – un producto de conocimiento de la CCERA
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Este producto de conocimiento recopila información sobre los debates de la Comunidad de Conocimiento sobre Recuperación de Activos de América Latina (CCERA), una iniciativa del Centro Internacional para la Recuperación de Activos (ICAR) del Basel Institute on Governance.