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Non-State Actors in Asset Recovery
Non-state actors are of fundamental importance in the prevention and combating of corruption within asset recovery processes. Their roles and responsibilities were considered during an experts' meeting hosted by the Basel Institute on Governance and the International Anti-Corruption Academy in...
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Mark Pieth, Harmonising Anti-Corruption Compliance
New anti-corruption laws and intensified law enforcement, in particular in OECD Member States, are motivating companies to implement sound anti-corruption compliance programmes. They will help reduce risk, but they may also serve as a business argument. Yet, companies are increasingly voicing the...
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Capacity Building in Asset Recovery
Corruption is one of the endemic evils in today’s world. The phenomenon has negative impacts on world poverty, democratic governance, progress and development. According to the World Bank, USD 20 to 40 billion is lost annually by developing nations because of corruption. With the adoption of the...
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New translation released: Tracing stolen assets - A practitioner's handbook
Каждый год коррупция генерирует доходы в...
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Annual Report 2010
The year 2010 was another eventful year for the Basel Institute on Governance (hereafter referred to as "The Institute"). The Institute acquired a number of new projects, in particular in the area of capacity building for asset recovery and in the area of industry standard setting. This included a...
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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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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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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...
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2012
01/27
Working Paper No 12: Basel Art Trade Guidelines - Intermediary report of a self-regulation initiative
The art trade market is global, highly fragmented and complex, involving a great variety of operators. In light of this complexity, the current level of regulation and existing compliance efforts by individual operators has proven to be insufficient. With some competitors engaged in unethical or...
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2012
01/16
Financial Investigations and Asset Recovery Training in Cameroon (January 2012)
Pursuant to the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) scoping mission held in Cameroon from 19 to 22 September 2011 and its findings, Experts from ICAR were invited by the Cameroon Ministry of Justice to conduct a five-day country specific training programme in respect of financial...
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2011
12/17
Independent Governance Committee
In October 2011, FIFA had announced that it had commissioned four internal Task Forces to conduct a thorough reform process. Concurrently, it indicated that an external advisory board, the “Independent Governance Committee” (IGC) would oversee its governance reform and make final recommendations to...
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2011
12/12
Money Laundering and Asset Tracing Training Programme in Ukraine
Experts from the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) conducted a six-day country specific training programme in respect of money laundering and asset tracing in Ukraine during the period 21 to 26 November 2011. This project took place through the mutual co-operation of the International...
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2011
12/06
Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Training Programme in Israel, November 2011
Experts from the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) were invited by the Israel Ministry of Justice to conduct a five-day country specific training programme in respect of money laundering and asset recovery. This took place in Jerusalem during the period 6 – 10 November 2011 through the...
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2011
11/30
Prof Mark Pieth has been named Chairman of FIFA's Independent Governance Committee
After the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) announced its decision to reform the organization and to commit to greater transparency earlier this year, it asked Prof. Dr. Mark Pieth to advise on the reorganization of its governance.
In this role, Prof. Pieth examined the...
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2011
11/11
Swiss Banks Face Sanctions
Swiss regulator Finma may discipline four banks for having what it called lax controls on accepting money from foreign public officials associated with deposed Middle Eastern and North African leaders, but generally found that the country's lenders complied with anti-money-laundering rules.
In a...
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2011
11/07
MENA Countries Regional Training Programme in Syracuse, Sicily
As countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region turn from the gripping drama of recent events, one of the most important issues on the agenda is the recovery of stolen wealth from the assets of former Presidents and their entourages. Whilst social and political upheaval has...
[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.