Training is tailor-made to the requirements of students, partner countries and institutions. Courses are offered primarily at the country or even sub-country (regional) level in order to ensure a high degree of relevance for the partner institution’s day-to-day work. Regional or sub-regional courses may be offered at the request of a group of countries if it is established that such joint training has an immediate practical relevance, e.g. to prepare the prosecution of concrete cases which involve multiple jurisdictions from the given (sub-) region, or because of a high degree of similarity in the concerned countries’ legal systems. Subject to adequate additional funding and available capacities, ICAR may also engage in training other constituencies such as civil society groups or academics in asset recovery matters should this be viewed as contributing to the efforts of the international community or individual states in improving the success rate in asset recovery.

Courses may be delivered in English, French, Spanish or German. For courses in other languages, the ICAR team will seek support from outside experts and deliver the training with simultaneous interpretation. The translation of training material into the major national language of the country concerned is systematically recommended to partner countries. This will ensure that training materials may be circulated to and understood by a larger group of practitioners within the concerned institution and can possibly be used as background for other in-house training, thereby increasing the degree of sustainability and the scope of impact of the ICAR trainings.

Trainers include specialists in areas such as banking and financial center regulation, lawyers, law enforcement practitioners with specific experience in relevant areas of mutual legal assistance and the prosecution of corruption and money laundering, and forensic accounting specialists. In addition to the in-house ICAR team of experts, trainings will usually also involve a couple of specialists from the Basel Institute on Governance’s global network of partners within law enforcement, academia, public administration and the financial industry, who may be called to contribute on a case-by-case basis to ICAR’s various projects. In particular, ICAR will seek to bring together key decision makers and practitioners from jurisdictions involved in joint cases so as to facilitate their cooperation in the prosecution of asset recovery cases.