Federico Paesano, holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Università degli studi del Molise in Campobasso (Italy). For fourteen years, he worked for the Italian Financial Police, mainly in the position of Station Commander, leading and conducting judicial and financial investigations, focusing in particular on economic crimes such as corruption, bribery, money laundering, investigations on government budget, misuse of EU funds, illegal immigration, international drugs smuggling and circulation.
In the course of his career, he became a certified expert in tax law on the excise and duty taxes, tax examination and inland revenue inspection techniques, money and electronic payments counterfeit and Investigations on assets originating from crimes.
Since July 2009, he was seconded by the Italian Government to the European Union Police Mission in Afghanistan (EUPOL) as Mentor to the Minister of Interior on Anticorruption: as part of a group of experts, he provided technical advice on transparency and accountability measures to the Minister of Interior as well as advice on the development of national and sector policies, collaborating closely with the AGO, the High Office of Oversight, the Supreme Court of Afghanistan and other external partners. Another key role was the development of the Afghan Anticorruption Implementation Programme which focuses on capacity building, prevention (enhanced and specialized training) and enforcement (conducting internal investigations of alleged cases of corruption).
Federico also graduated from the Military Academy of the Guardia di Finanza in L’Aquila (Italy) and holds the degree of Abroad Operations Expert, focusing on subjects such as conflicts and nation building, negotiating techniques (conflicts resolution in crisis areas, good offices techniques), geopolitics and strategic studies, peace support operations, multinational operations, international humanitarian law and advanced military training in hostile environments.
Federico joined the International Centre for Asset Recovery as Asset Recovery Specialist, delivering technical training programmes on financial investigations and asset recovery in Africa, Asia and Europe.