Bangladesh Asset Recovery Task Force Workshop in Switzerland, March 2008

From 27 February to 7 March 2008 the ICAR team conducted an extensive training program in Basel Switzerland for members of the Bangladesh StAR Inter Agency Task Force on Tracing and Recovering Stolen Assets. The team members included prosecutors, investigators and high level Bangladesh Central Bank and FIU officials. The training involved a 6 day complex practical exercise in which the participants investigated a simulated corruption and money laundering case. The exercise was supplemented with lectures on the United Nations Convention against Corruption, financial investigative techniques, money laundering, mutual legal assistance and asset recovery. Legal experts specializing in MLA who provided country specific assistance included Umar Saifuddin Jaafar, Malaysian central authority, George Simpson London Metropolitan Police Detective Sergeant and Gary Balch, Head of Confiscation Organised Crime Division Crown Prosecution Service, London. The program was sponsored by the World Bank and ICAR.