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Interdisciplinary Conference on Conflict of Interest 7-8 May 2010
The Basel Institute on Governance has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in a two-day interdisciplinary and international conference on “Conflict of Interest”.
The conference will be held on 7-8 May 2010 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel, Switzerland.
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New book released: Tracing stolen assets - A practitioner's handbook
Corruption generates billions of dollars each year. A large portion of the assets acquired through acts of corruption can never be recovered by victim countries for the simple reason: it was not possible to locate them. The profits generated by crime are often transferred to financial centres in an...
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Training on corruption in Haiti
The Basel Institute on Governance will conduct a ten days training in Haiti on corruption, on a request from the Government of Haiti through funding from the World Bank Institute. The training is divided into three parts: one on corruption prevention, one on corruption investigation and one on...
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New book released: Countering Terrorist Financing
Terrorists need money to commit acts of violence and sustain their operations. Measures to combat terrorism therefore aim to prevent terrorists from raising, moving and using funds or other assets. The effectiveness - and the fairness - of these measures were considered at the second 'Giessbach'...
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Training on Corruption Case Work, Nigeria
The International Centre for Asset Recovery conducts a training on how to handle corruption cases in Nigeria. The learning goals are to enhance the professional capacity of prosecutors and judges in the handling of corruption related cases. More specifically, the project aims to build sustainable...
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e-learning module: Interactive Corruption Scenario
The interactive corruption case scenario is designed to help you learn the basics of an asset recovery case. You can interactively participate in the gradual unraveling of a corruption case.
The case involves stolen assets that have to be traced and frozen. The case is purely fictional but certain...
News
2010
02/03
Duvalier assets can not (yet) be returned to Haiti - Swiss Federal Court Decision
The Swiss Federal Court has ruled that the USD 5.7 million kept by the Duvalier clan in Swiss bank accounts, frozen since 1986, cannot be returned to Haiti, due to a lack of a criminal procedure against Mr. Duvalier in that country.
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2009
12/23
The Basel Institute on Governance held its international seminar on CTF (“Giessbach III”) on 15-17 December 2009
The Basel Institute on Governance successfully held its third international seminar on Countering the Financing of Terrorism (the so-called Giessbach III) from 15 to 17 December 2009 in Lucerne, Switzerland.
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2009
12/17
News article (in German) from the Luzerner Zeitung
16 December 2009: "Schweizer Banken helfen aktiv mit."
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2009
12/09
International Anti-Corruption Day, 9 December 2009
News article (German) from the local newspaper in Basel (Basler Zeitung)
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2009
12/09
Training project in Zambia
The Access to Justice Programme (AtoJ), which is currently funded by Danida, is a priority area for the Government of Zambia, and contributes towards establishing, inter alia, access to justice for the people of Zambia by helping to improve the key sector institutions, policies and practices. As...
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2009
12/01
Capacity Building Training Programme in the Ukraine
The purpose of a training mission by representatives of the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) to Ukraine in September 2009 was twofold: Firstly, to enhance the capacity of the Financial Intelligence Unit as well as the main law enforcement agencies in analysing, investigating and...
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2009
11/30
Assessment mission to Georgia
During the period 30 September – 2 October 2009, experts of the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) visited Georgia to carry out a scoping mission with the purpose to assess the country’s current law enforcement capacities for fighting corruption and money laundering as well as for...
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2009
11/30
Training Programme in Vietnam
During the period 2 to 6 November 2009, representatives of the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) conducted a five-day training programme in respect of asset tracing and asset recovery which was specific to Vietnam. This project took place through the mutual co-operation of ICAR, the...
[more]About us
The Basel Institute on Governance is an independent and non-profit think tank conducting research and offering policy advice and capacity building support in public, global and corporate governance/compliance. Through the International Centre for Asset Recovery, we further provide training and advisory services in the field of asset recovery. The Institute combines scientific methodology with practical experience and seeks to engage partners from all concerned stakeholder groups. Based in Switzerland and associated with the University of Basel, we bring together internationally recognised academics as well as practitioners with long-standing experience in the matters at stake.