Victim Compensation, Restitution and Community Reinvestment Funded from Recovered Assets

Course overview

Behind many recovery cases are identifiable victims: depositors of a collapsed investment scheme, pensioners defrauded of savings, or communities harmed by corruption in public services. Returning recovered assets to them is a powerful demonstration that crime does not pay, but compensation schemes are difficult to run fairly. This victim compensation scheme course gives practitioners the tools to design and manage them.

Participants learn the legal routes for compensating victims from recovered assets, including restitution orders, compensation funds and remission of forfeited property. They practise identifying and notifying victims, designing claims processes, verifying losses, preventing fraudulent claims, deciding priority and pro rata distributions, and making payments securely through banks and mobile money. Where individual compensation is impossible, the course examines community reinvestment, such as funding services in affected areas, and how to involve communities in decisions. Case studies include a pyramid scheme, a land fraud and a diverted health fund.

Participants leave able to design and run compensation and reinvestment schemes that are fair, efficient and trusted.

What you will be able to do

• Explain the legal routes for compensating victims from recovered assets
• Identify and notify victims effectively
• Design claims processes and verify losses
• Prevent and detect fraudulent claims
• Apply priority and pro rata distribution rules
• Plan community reinvestment where individual compensation is not possible

Who should attend

For prosecutors, asset managers, victim support staff and administrators who handle compensation and restitution from recovered assets.

• Prosecutors and legal officers
• Asset management office staff
• Victim support officers
• Claims administrators
• Capital markets regulators
• Community development officers
• Civil society partners

Course outline

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