Asset Recovery Inter-Agency Networks, Informal Cooperation and Asset Sharing Agreements

Course overview

Most successful recovery cases depend on relationships: a contact point in another country who confirms where an account is held, a domestic task force that brings police, prosecutors and the revenue authority together, or an agreement that shares recovered assets fairly between states. This asset recovery networks course shows practitioners how to build and use those relationships deliberately.

Participants learn how regional asset recovery inter-agency networks such as ARIN-EA and ARINSA work, together with international networks and focal point systems, and how to send and answer requests through them. They study domestic coordination: inter-agency task forces, memoranda of understanding, joint case conferences and information-sharing arrangements. The final part covers asset sharing between states and between domestic agencies, including legal bases, negotiating shares and recording agreements. Participants practise drafting network requests and planning a joint operation with partners in two other countries.

Participants leave able to use networks and inter-agency arrangements to locate and recover assets more quickly.

What you will be able to do

• Explain how regional and international asset recovery networks operate
• Send and answer requests through network channels
• Design domestic inter-agency task forces and agreements
• Run effective joint case conferences
• Negotiate and record asset sharing arrangements
• Plan joint operations with foreign partners

Who should attend

For investigators, prosecutors and contact points who work across agencies or borders on asset recovery cases.

• Asset recovery network contact points
• Financial investigators
• Prosecutors
• FIU international cooperation officers
• Revenue authority investigators
• Police liaison officers

Course outline

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