Asset Concealment Typologies and Dissipation Risk Assessment

Course overview

Every restraint order is a race against the respondent. Once a subject senses an investigation, land can be transferred to relatives, vehicles sold, cash withdrawn and money moved abroad within days. This asset concealment typologies course helps investigators recognise the methods offenders in the region use to hide wealth and judge how quickly identified assets are likely to disappear.

Participants study concealment through relatives and associates, front companies, trusts, cash and mobile money, informal lending, land registered in other names, assets held abroad and virtual assets. Each typology is examined through its indicators, the records that expose it and the countermeasures available. The course then introduces a structured dissipation risk assessment that weighs the subject's behaviour, the nature of each asset and the stage of the case, and shows how to present that assessment to support an urgent or without-notice restraint application. Case studies are drawn from patterns seen in corruption, fraud and drug cases across East Africa.

Participants leave able to spot concealment early and to justify urgent restraint with a clear, documented dissipation risk assessment.

What you will be able to do

• Describe the main asset concealment typologies used in the region
• Recognise indicators of concealment in financial and registry records
• Identify the records that expose each concealment method
• Assess the dissipation risk of individual assets and of a case as a whole
• Prioritise restraint action based on documented risk
• Present dissipation risk evidence to support urgent applications

Who should attend

For investigators, analysts and prosecutors working on proceeds of crime cases who need to anticipate concealment and act before assets are lost.

• Asset recovery investigators
• Financial intelligence analysts
• Prosecutors in forfeiture units
• Anti-corruption investigators
• Revenue authority investigators
• Bank fraud and compliance investigators

Course outline

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