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Connecting police
Securing the world
Role of INTERPOLin Asset Recovery
Jaganathan Saravanasamy
Assistant Director, Anti-Corruption Sub-DirectorateICPO-INTERPOL
200, quai Charles de Gaulle69006 Lyon, Paris
INTERPOL – a global organization
Created in 1923, INTERPOL is the world’s largest international police organization, with 190 member countries
General Secretariat in Lyon, France, six Regional Bureaus, one Liaison Office, and Special Representatives of INTERPOL to the United Nations and to the European Union in Brussels.
Four official languages: Arabic, English, French and Spanish
A National Central Bureau (NCB) in each member country
Airports
Police stations
Ports
Specialised Lawenforcement
agencies
NCBs
INTERPOL National Central Bureaus - NCBs
Borders
General Secretariat
INTERPOL’s 4 core functions
Secure globalpolice
communicationsservices
Operational policesupport services
Operational dataServices anddatabases for
police
Police training and
development
Wanted persons
Seeking additional information
Warnings about known criminals
Missing persons
Unidentified bodiesSpecial INTERPOL-UN Security Council
Warnings of threats
+ Diffusions
INTERPOL Notices and Diffusions
Core function #2: Operational data services and databases for police
Corruption was named as INTERPOL’s crime priority area in 2007
Asset recovery is the natural extension of AC investigation
Tools
multi-purpose tools
Customized tools
INTERPOL’s initiatives in Anti-Corruption & AML
Core function #3: Operational police support services
Difficulties in tackling Corruption
THE OFFENCE
• It is increasingly transnational
• Value moves across borders, very fast, in electronic form
• Even assets created out of corrupt money are stored in electronic form.
THE EFFORTS
• Countries are sovereign and legislative jurisdiction is limited by boundaries.
• Investigative process is physical, the channel is lengthy, compartmentalized, procedure and requirements different and often frustrating.
• Locating and linking assets stored electronically is difficult. They often change form making them difficult to trace.
United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC)
Chapter II
Preventive measures
Chapter IVInternationalCooperation
Chapter VAsset Recovery
Chapter III
Criminalization & Law Enforcement
• INTERPOL's Anti-Corruption Office is engaged in a number of initiatives designed to combat corruption and encourage the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC).
• It seeks to train, support and co-ordinate individuals in law enforcement through a variety of programs in order to expose and address the problem of corruption.
Anti-Corruption Office
• Operational Coordination: Global Focal Points for Asset Recovery
• Capcity Building: INTERPOL Global Programme on Anti-Corruption and Asset Recovery
• Operational Meetings: We coordinate Operational meetings for AR
Approach to Asset Recovery
Authorized list of names and contact details
Repository of skills and tools and a secured database for
ongoing cases
Authorized INTERPOL Red Notices on Corruption and future guidelines on how to
issue them
Use of Interpol’s secure I-24/7 law enforcement
communication platform
The Focal Point Initiative- concept
• Ordinarily available and restricted- A web-based application (through https://)
• A secured channel for exchange information between Focal Points-(through https://)
• A restricted access to the notices on corruption- (through https:// e-ASF2/ICIS)
• A criminal database for ongoing case (through I-24/7)
The Focal Point Initiative –Features.
Strategy for CB
• Franchise model• Out-reach in partnership• Complemaentary in nature• Regional approach• Comprehensive package• Workshop model for five working days
Role we play….
• Facilitating role
• Suggest and help select course content
• Suggest and help select faculty
• Prescribe and select the participants
Role partner plays
• Provides an institutional set-up
• Provides class room infrastructure
• Supplements faculty
• Provides and logistics
Method….• Case study based• Investigator/Prosecutor who handled
the case teaches• Hand-on workshop• Pros & cons discussed• Group discussions• Groups come out with best practices
Focus…
• On Investigator & Prosecutor• On evidence• On collecting, preserving and presenting
admissible evidence• Complete the triangle of crime-criminal-
asset by evidence
Because, efficient investigation is fundamental to successful asset recovery
The First programme
• Hosted by the CBI New Delhi between 13&17Feb 2012
• For Asia Pacific region
• 36 participants from 16 countries
A balanced diet
• UNCAC and OECD Convention-A critical analysis
• Preventive vigilance and demonstration of preventive tools
• Corruption in contracting and procurements
• Corruption in extracting natural resources• Use of INTERPOL tools and guides
A balanced diet• Role of Intelligence in corruption investigation• Tracking proceeds of corruption in virtual
world• Preserving, extracting evidence from
electronic network• Practical and hands-on training in extraction of
evidence from electronic medium
A balanced diet
• Corruption and high value financial frauds
• Investigating corruption in sports• Issues in writing MLA requests
• Investigation of corruption in sports• Group exercise on best practices
Operational Meetings• Request can be from any member country• A seconded police officer of IPSG acts as a expert
coordinator• Case officers from relevant countries invited on the
platform-• Experts invited to advise on complex issues• If need be, prosecutors are invited• The coordinator from IPSG, draws up the agenda
The Dynamics of Ops mtg• From within the participants, a Task Force
emerges• Way forward emerges on consensus• An Expert Team assembled to de deployed on
specific mission• Often, member countries and Intl. Agencies
commit resources for the mission• Coordinator at IPSG is the contact point &
manages IE platform
The Dynamics• Core case and satellite cases discussed• Outcome of criminal as well as intelligence
investigation shared• Problem areas & complexities identified• Issues concerning MLA/LRs sorted out• Structure, modalities and host for a depository for
information exchange, worked out• Strategies worked out • Contact points for future course decided• Bilateral / side / informal meetings
Thank you!
The INTERPOL Anti-corruption OfficeIPSG/Lyon