Advanced Asset Tracing and Recovery Techniques

Course overview

Proceeds of corruption, fraud and organised crime in the region are now routinely hidden behind relatives, companies, foreign accounts and virtual assets. Recovering them requires investigators who can work through every stage of the process, not just one. This advanced asset tracing and recovery course is a two-week programme that takes experienced practitioners through the complete cycle in depth, from the first financial profile to the recovery of assets abroad.

The first week builds tracing capability: recovery frameworks, financial profiling and source of wealth analysis, transaction and fund flow analysis, beneficial ownership, intelligence sources and network analysis. The second week turns findings into results: restraint and preservation, investigation and evidence for forfeiture, international cooperation, management of restrained assets and recovery strategy. Daily practical work feeds into an extended simulated case involving a network of officials, companies and accounts in several countries, which teams investigate across both weeks.

Participants leave with the methods, templates and confidence to lead complex tracing and recovery cases and to coach colleagues in their own institutions.

What you will be able to do

• Apply criminal, civil and administrative recovery frameworks to complex cases
• Build financial profiles and source of wealth analyses of subjects and entities
• Reconstruct fund flows across bank, mobile money and corporate accounts
• Identify beneficial owners and proxies behind concealed assets
• Use financial, open-source and corporate intelligence in a tracing strategy
• Plan and support restraint and preservation of identified assets
• Use mutual legal assistance and informal channels to trace and recover assets abroad
• Produce asset tracing reports and recovery recommendations for decision-makers

Who should attend

For experienced investigators, analysts and prosecutors who lead or will lead complex asset recovery cases, including those with cross-border elements.

• Senior financial investigators
• Asset recovery specialists
• FIU analysts
• Prosecutors in forfeiture units
• Anti-corruption investigators
• Revenue authority investigators
• Intelligence officers
• Regulatory enforcement officers

Course outline

Week 1

Week 2

Fees are per participant in US dollars and cover tuition, course materials and your certificate. Travel and accommodation are not included.