From 13 to 16 July 2015, the United Nations Office on Drugs on Crime (UNODC), the Asset Recovery Inter-Agency Network of South Africa (ARINSA), the Government of the Republic of Namibia, the Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG) and the International Center of Asset Recovery (ICAR) conducted a workshop for senior judges and magistrates from Eastern and Southern Africa on proceeds of crime and money laundering in Swakopmund, Namibia.
At the request of the Kuwait Anti-Corruption Authority (KANCOR), experts from the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) conducted a series of two back-to-back 5-day training workshops in Kuwait City during mid-May 2015; first, a 5-day training workshop entitled “Financial Investigations and Asset Recovery” to enhance local capacity to investigate and prosecute complex (including international) corruption and money laundering cases and recover stolen assets.
Experts from ICAR delivered two back-to-back 5-day country specific training programmes in financial investigations and asset recovery in New Delhi, India, from 29 February to 11 March 2016. These workshops were conducted as part of a technical assistance arrangement between the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office in India and the Indian Ministry of Finance Enforcement Directorate (MOF-ED).
ICAR raises awareness of financial investigation/asset recovery at the International Criminal Court
On 22 and 23 February 2016, the Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) conducted an awareness raising seminar for approximately 100 prosecutors, investigators and other members of the International Criminal Court (ICC), held at the seat of the Court in The Hague, on financial investigations and asset recovery.
Call for applications: Workshop on Financial Investigations and Asset Recovery - “Follow the money”
The Basel Institute on Governance, RISE Project and the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) are hosting a training workshop on Financial Investigations and Asset Recovery – “Follow the money”.
Capacity-building workshop in Ghana on management of seized/frozen and confiscated criminal assets
The Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR), in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), conducted a National Workshop on the management of seized/frozen and confiscated criminal assets in Accra, Ghana, from 24 to 26 February 2016.
In the context of the “Strengthening Uganda’s Anti Corruption Response (SUGAR)” project, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), experts from the Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) conducted a four- day training workshop on the concepts and process for conducting a Money Laundering/Terrorism Financing (ML/TF) National Risk Assessment (NRA) for representatives from governmental authorities, supervisory authorities and private sector, in Kampala, Uganda, from 19 – 22 January 2016.
In Peru where the Basel Institute recently established its first country office in the context of its more recent public finance management programme funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), the Institute’s training experts of the International Center for Asset Recovery (ICAR) conducted two 5-day back-to-back training programmes in financial investigations and asset recovery from 23 May to 4 June 2016.
Experts from ICAR delivered a 4-day training workshop on Operational Analysis to the Peruvian Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in Lima from 6 to 9 June 2016 with the aim to strengthen the FIU's analytical and operational capacities in financial investigations.
The Basel Institute on Governance in partnership with the two Romanian not-for-profit organisations RISE Project and the Journalism Development Network (JDN)’s Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) hosted a third training workshop on Financial Investigations and Asset Recovery – “Follow the money” – on 28–29 April 2016 in Basel, Switzerland. The workshop was organised in the context of a three-year initiative on "Mapping and Visualising Cross-Border Crime” launched in October 2014 and funded by the Swiss-Romanian Cooperation Programme.