Regional Seminar on Identifying, Restraining and Recovering Stolen Assets in the OSCE Region

When: 3 September 2012 - 5 September 2012

Where: Vienna, Hofburg Congress Centre

Organized by: The Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Stolen Assets Recovery Initiative (StAR) of the World Bank and UNODC with support from the Irish Chairmanship of the OSCE and the Basel Institute on Governance.

The aim of this seminar is to bring together experts and practitioners from OSCE participating States and Partners for Co-operation to discuss and exchange experience on asset recovery cases and issues related to legal instruments, the identification of risk groups, asset tracing, and international and regional co-operation frameworks. The event comprises two segments: an expert segment on 3-4 September and a political segment in the morning of 5 September. The political segment will focus on how the outcomes and recommendations of expert discussions can be brought to the attention of decision makers, and further advanced in order to strengthen national and international asset recovery efforts.

The seminar will gather senior officials that deal with anti-corruption and anti-money laundering issues (anti-corruption agencies, Financial Intelligence Units, central authorities, audit institutions, investigators/law enforcement agencies, investigating magistrates, prosecutors and legislators) as well as representatives of financial institutions. The working languages of the seminar will be English and Russian.

All documents related to the event will be published on this page.