The IT team of the Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) provides ICT advisory services and develops IT-based tools in support of financial investigations and asset recovery. Clients include law enforcement and other public institutions but increasingly, financial services organisations and the non-financial private sector are expressing interest in these tools and services.

ICT consultancy

The Institute’s IT Unit provides expertise and consultancy services in the areas of:

• Knowledge, case and intelligence management;
• Systems and tools for conducting financial investigations on corruption cases;
• Open-source (OSINT) research;
• Social/crowd sourcing networks and initiatives to foster collective action; and
• e-Learning.

We work closely with public agencies like Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) and Asset Recovery Offices (AROs) and assist in assessing and developing processes and IT-based tools to strengthen the different branches of the criminal justice system. Our three-stage methodology consists of a) an initial evaluation of the existing infrastructure and ICT landscape in a country, b) the analysis and definition of the requirements for improvements (usually developed jointly with concerned stakeholders), and c) the development of a business case to implement solutions.

Training & e-learning

Through its Asset Recovery Campus learning management system the International Centre for Asset Recovery offers online e-learning courses tailored to the needs of investigators. Our e-learning experts offer technological and methodological advice and development of e-learning solutions also to external clients.

Product development

Our IT team produces hands-on tools to support financial investigators and asset recovery specialists, as well as representatives from other public and private institutions engaged in preventing, detecting and prosecuting corruption:

• Social networks, like the Asset Recovery Experts Network;
• Intelligence tools, like the Asset Recovery Intelligence System;
• Learning management systems, like the Asset Recovery Campus;
• Analytical tools, like the Basel AML Index; and
• Assessment tools for Corporate Governance.