Exciting to see how Switzerland is wielding its legal toolbox to confiscate assets connected to Ukraine’s 2014 Revolution of Dignity, with the aim of returning these to Ukraine. 🇨🇭🇺🇦 🤝 nzz.ch/schweiz/die-ukraine-h… 1/6

📢 Registration is now open for the 8th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptocurrencies! Join us, @Europol , @UNODC and a host of leading virtual assets experts from across sectors to explore trends, strategies and tactics in tackling crypto-related crimes. In-person spaces are limited – sign up quickly to secure your spot! 📅 11–12 September 2023 (day 2 for law enforcement/public authorities only) 📍 UNODC headquarters, Vienna, Austria ℹ & registration: baselgovernance.org/news/reg…

What do different states do with assets confiscated as proceeds of corruption or organised crime? What could or should they do with them? Another useful Quick Guide by Andrew Dornbierer deals with this complex topic: baselgovernance.org/publicat… It's based on a longer Working Paper developed in collaboration with the @OSCE.

What can we learn by examining other states' asset recovery toolboxes? To find out, look at our new Quick Guide by Andrew Dornbierer on best practices in asset recovery legislation: baselgovernance.org/publicat… Based on a Working Paper developed in collaboration with the @OSCE.

So many interesting side events at the #CCPCJ33 in Vienna 🇦🇹 this week! unodc.org/unodc/en/commissio… One of those is on the management of seized and confiscated assets, with a focus on the experience of Mozambique 🇲🇿. Join the moderator Antonio De Vivo, Head of the UNODC Programme Office in Mozambique, and panel of excellent speakers including Carla Monteiro of our International Centre for Asset Recovery. Ambassador Raphael Nägeli @SwissAmbUN_Wien will make opening remarks. 📅 Thursday, 16 May 2024 | 13:00-13:50 CEST 📍 M0E100 | Vienna International Centre 💻 teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup… The side event is organised by UNODC in Mozambique and kindly supported by Switzerland 🇨🇭, which also funds a high-impact asset recovery assistance programme in the country implemented by an embedded team of our International Centre for Asset Recovery.

👏 Brilliant news from our partners in #Jersey and #Mozambique: GBP 829,500 in proceeds of corruption will be returned to Mozambique and used to support the country's key enforcement agencies. That's over MZN 66 million or USD 1 million. 🇯🇪 HM Attorney General Mark Temple KC and 🇲🇿 Vice Attorney General His Excellency Alberto Paulo signed an agreement today for the return of the funds, which had been hidden in a Jersey trust by a former high-level public official. 🤝 This is Mozambique's first ever international asset return agreement and is the result of good cooperation between all parties. 🙏 Many thanks to both for recognising the role of our International Centre for Asset Recovery and our late leader Gretta Fenner in providing assistance in relation to the return agreement, under a programme funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. 💡 Interesting note: Jersey was able to successfully forfeit the funds thanks to the provisions in its 2018 civil asset forfeiture law. Our team has been assisting the Mozambican authorities in developing a similar civil asset forfeiture law that we hope will enable the state to recover many more proceeds of corruption and crime for the benefit of the country's citizens. More in the press release of the Law Officers' Department, Jersey: gov.je/News/2024/Pages/Asset…

Celebrating International Women's Day with our Managing Director Gretta Fenner – an inspiration to many women (and not only!) and member of the @INTGenderChampions network. #InspireInclusion #IWD2024

🇺🇦 🇨🇭 We were pleased this week to receive a delegation from #Ukraine’s two key government anti-corruption agencies, @NAZK_gov and @nab_ukr. We were supporting them in engaging with the Swiss authorities to discuss anti-corruption in the Restoration process and to progress judicial cooperation in some of their important investigations. It was also an excellent opportunity to review our joint programme of work and discuss how to further deepen the Basel Institute’s support to NACP and NABU in their critical role to prevent and investigate large-scale corruption in Ukraine. Their work is more important than ever, and we are very proud to partner with our very dedicated colleagues Artem Sytnyk of NACP and Oleksandr Tomeyev and Oleksandr Abakumov of NABU.

Even we were surprised by the runaway popularity of our Basel LEARN platform, which offers free eLearning courses and other resources for anti-corruption and asset recovery practitioners. But Basel LEARN is just a part of the story of how we use technology to boost capacity building while keeping learners' experience at the centre. In this short blog, Peter Huppertz outlines how we connect technology, training and learning at the Institute: baselgovernance.org/blog/per…

An exciting new job opening at our International Centre for Asset Recovery, for someone who understands and wants to help shape asset recovery policy and practice for the better. baselgovernance.org/sites/de…

#Corruption is in the spotlight at @MunSecConf #MSC2024 today. Literally – with a "Spotlight" panel discussion on corruption and security at 15:30 CET. Moderated by our MD @gretweets, the panel features: 🇬🇹 @BArevalodeLeon, President of Guatemala 🇧🇬 @AcadDenkov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria 🇺🇸 @SenWhitehouse, U.S. Senator and Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget 🇲🇬 @KeRafitoson, Vice Chair of @anticorruption 🇺🇦 @HopkoHanna, Founder and Chair of the Board of ANTS, will make the first comment. We are happy that corruption is being taken seriously as a threat to international peace and security. More info & link to live stream: baselgovernance.org/node/258…

🎉 A good start to 2024 for 🇯🇪 Jersey and 🇳🇬 Nigeria: Jersey's Royal Court has granted the Attorney General's application to forfeit USD 8.9 million in assets for the benefit of the Nigerian people. gov.je/News/2024/Pages/Forfe…

Hard to believe it's International Anti-Corruption Day again. And hard to believe it's 20 years since the Basel Institute on Governance was born (yes! we're the same age as the UN Convention Against Corruption). So here's a fun way to test your knowledge on corruption – and maybe learn something new. If you get 10/10 three times in a row... check out our jobs page. Happy playing: baselgovernance.org/card-gam… #IACD2023 #UNCAC20 #UnitedAgainstCorruption

If you are interested in how financial investigations can be a powerful tool to prevent (yes, prevent) corruption, join us at this #COSP10 special event on 14 December 2023. Our Managing Director @gretweets will speak alongside representatives of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, Hong Kong, China; @StanChart; and the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Tim Steele and Victor Lee of the organiser @UNODC will moderate. Join us at the CoSP in person at 14:00 EST on 14 December or register for live streaming: forms.office.com/Pages/Respo… #UNCAC20 #UnitedAgainstCorruption

What really needs to happen NOW to reduce money laundering and terrorist financing risks in the coming years? Hear what leading voices have to say from @ecb, @the_IDB, The Wolfsberg Group, @osaka_univ_e & @okx. 👇 And feel free to comment your ideas below.

Mozambique is building integrity from the ground up with specialised training programmes from our International Centre for Asset Recovery @StolenAssets. 🛠️ Last week a cohort of anti-corruption practitioners successfully completed the Corruption in Infrastructure Projects and Procurement programme, ensuring that the high-value projects needed to boost development will not be hijacked by corrupt interests. Learn more ⬇ baselgovernance.org/news/bui…

👏 🇲🇿 Congratulations to our partners in #Mozambique for recovering around more than 1 billion meticais (over USD 20 million) this year from crimes of corruption, money laundering and terrorist financing. The path ahead is long – but as the Attorney General of Mozambique Beatriz Buchili said, gaining capacity to recover @StolenAssets increases social trust and the confidence of international partners in Mozambique's administration of justice. We are grateful to @SwissDevCoop for the continued support to our programme of technical assistance and capacity building in Mozambique. 🤝 🇲🇿 🇨🇭 noticias.mmo.co.mz/2023/11/m…

We are looking for a Legal Research Intern to work with our Public Governance team and International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) @StolenAssets. You'll be working as part of the @HorizonEU FALCON (Fight Against Large-scale Corruption and Organised Crime Networks) project, as well as supporting our ICAR team to strengthen the capacity of partner countries in recovering stolen assets. Requirements include a master's degree in law, experience in research and fluent English. The full job description is available here: baselgovernance.org/about-us…

Corruption and the environment is a major focus of next week's Conference of the States Parties to the UN Convention Against Corruption (#CoSP10). To inform the debates, our new Working Paper by Sophie Lemaître reviews promising initiatives to prevent and combat corruption linked to crimes that impact the environment: baselgovernance.org/blog/see… Want to join in the debate? Join us in person at the CoSP or online for a series of special events on environmental corruption: baselgovernance.org/node/253… Thanks to #Liechtenstein for funding the report and other valuable work of our #GreenCorruption programme. #UNCAC20 #UnitedAgainstCorruption @juhanigrossmann @cabrejoleroux

Non-conviction based forfeiture has been in the headlines since the @FATFNews introduced a new requirement for countries to introduce this asset recovery tool in their legal systems. We have been promoting it for years as an essential complement to the asset recovery toolbox. Our Head of Latin America Oscar Solórzano @SolorzanoOso presented a new guide to best practices on using Extinción de dominio – Latin America's predominant form of non-conviction based forfeiture law – at a meeting of the Asset Recovery Network of @gafilat (the FATF's Latin American regional body). He emphasised the value of Latin American countries introducing and using Extinción de dominio to recover proceeds and instrumentalities of crime, in order to counter the high levels of economic and organised crime in the region. But he stressed that laws and their implementation need to be aligned with international human rights standards. Only then will they gain legitimacy in the eyes of citizens and international counterparts. We are pleased to be an observer at GAFILAT's Asset Recovery Network and to contribute our experience helping governments across Latin America to improve their capacity to recover illicit assets and combat economic crime.