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Media release: Bad ratings for Austria - critical FATF assessment of Austria’s anti-money laundering systemToday, the FATF published it’s assessment of Austria’s anti-money laundering (AML) and counter financing of terrorism (CFT) regime in which Austria was found to have a solid AML framework but to fall short in its effective implementation. The Basel Institute has been been analysing the FATF... |
September 14, 2016 |
Media release: Basel Institute, Europol and Interpol establish working group on money laundering with digital currenciesToday (9 September 2016), Europol, INTERPOL, and the Basel Institute on Governance have formalised the establishment of a tripartite partnership for a working group on money laundering with digital currencies. The working group will aim to gather, analyse and exchange non-operational information... |
September 9, 2016 |
Roundtable on money laundering activities in BulgariaExperts from Basel Institute participated during a roundtable organized in Sofia, Bulgaria on 14 July 2016 by the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD), a Bulgarian interdisciplinary public policy institute, on the topic: “Scope and implications of money laundering activities: institutional go... |
August 31, 2016 |
Ugandan Inspector General of Government stresses importance of recovering stolen assetsAt the opening ceremony of the second Financial Investigations and Asset Recovery training workshop in Uganda during August 2016, the Inspector General of Government, Lady Justice Irene Mulyagonja, emphasised the importance of hitting those convicted of corruption where it hurts most: in additio... |
August 25, 2016 |
Learn more about our 2015 operational highlights (Annual Report 2015)2015 has been a year with many changes for our Institute. We have grown rapidly, more than doubling our staff and increasing our annual operating budget by around 60%. We have also considerably revised our operational strategy and further expanded our thematic reach. |
August 17, 2016 |
ICAR expands its operations in South America partnering with Paraguay to build national capacity in financial investigation and asset recoveryThe International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) has further expanded its operational engagement in South America partnering with Paraguay where ICAR experts, in partnership with the Ministerio Público(Public Prosecutor’s Office) of Paraguay, conducted a 5-day training... |
August 8, 2016 |
Media release: The Basel Institute releases fifth edition of the 2016 Basel Anti-Money Laundering IndexThe Basel Institute released its fifth edition of the Basel Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Index today. The Index is an annual ranking assessing the money laundering/terrorism financing risks of 149 countries. |
July 27, 2016 |
Establishing beneficial ownership is key to countering illicit financial flows - High Level Conference on Illicit Financial Flows (Pretoria, South Africa)At the opening session of the recent High Level Conference on Illicit Financial Flows: Interagency Cooperation and Good Tax Governance in Africa (Pretoria, South Africa, 14 to 15 July 2016), the South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan highlighted that Africa continues to lose large sums of... |
July 21, 2016 |
ICAR commences train-the-trainer programme for Uganda’s law enforcement agenciesIn the context of the SUGAR project (“Strengthening Uganda’s Anti-Corruption and Accountability Response”) project, funded by the UK Department for International Development, experts from the Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery conducted its first training workshop in early... |
July 13, 2016 |
ICAR welcomes ICC report on "Cooperation challenges faced by the Court with respect to financial investigations"The report summarises findings from a series of events organised in 2015 by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in cooperation with the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Basel Institute's ICAR. |
July 1, 2016 |
Strengthening the capacities of the public prosecution of Peru in recovering illicitly obtained assets from abroadIn Peru where the Basel Institute recently established its first country office in the context of its more recent public finance management programme funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), the Institute’s training experts of the International Center for Asset Recovery... |
June 21, 2016 |
Public Consultation: Basel Art Trade Anti-Money Laundering PrinciplesThe Basel Institute on Governance launches a Public Consultation on Anti-Money Laundering Principles for the Art Trade. |
June 17, 2016 |