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Self-paced eLearning (7)

Free interactive certificate courses on key skills to investigate corruption and money laundering and recover stolen assets

AVAILABLE SOON Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is a central part in most corruption or money-laundering investigations. In this course you learn the basics of how to prepare, conduct and report an O…

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International Cooperation and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters

Corruption and money laundering cases generally require investigative efforts beyond domestic borders. Why? A company paying bribes for a contract might be located in a foreign country. Perhaps asset…

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Operational Analysis of Suspicious Transaction Reports

Analysing suspicious transactions for activities related to money laundering or the financing of terrorism is a core function of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs). In this course, you will learn to…

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Financial Analysis using Excel

For most investigators, Excel is the tool of choice to analyse financial information. In this course, you will use Excel to organise and analyse large volumes of data such as banking records, invoice…

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Visualise Cases and Flows of Money

Corruption and money laundering investigations often involve complex structures of persons, companies and other entities. This is challenging to present to a supervisor or colleagues, or even in a co…

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Source and Application of Funds Analysis

The Source and Application of Funds Analysis is a simple yet powerful method to prove unknown or illegal income in a corruption or money laundering case when direct evidence is not available. It is a…

Guidelines (7)

Open-access guidelines and practical resources on asset recovery, illicit enrichment and wildlife crime

Illicit Enrichment: A Guide to Laws Targeting Unexplained Wealth

Illicit Enrichment by Andrew Dornbierer provides a comprehensive guide to illicit enrichment laws and their application to target unexplained wealth and recover proceeds of corruption and other crime…

Guidelines for the efficient recovery of stolen assets

A set of international good practices to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the asset recovery process. Languages: English, French, Spanish.

Guide to the role of civil society organisations in asset recovery

A practical guide to how civil society organisations can play a role in the asset recovery process. Languages: English, Ukrainian, Arabic.

Illegal wildlife trade and financial crime

Part 1 of the Wildlife crime – understanding risks, avenues for action learning series explores financial crimes and supply chain vulnerabilities that facilitate the illegal trade in wildlife and the…

Illegality in the exotic pet trade

Part 2 of the Wildlife crime – understanding risks, avenues for action learning series provides companies, policy makers, practitioners and law enforcement with information and background knowledge o…

Forest crime and the illegal timber trade

Part 3 of the Wildlife crime – understanding risks, avenues for action learning series explores how corruption facilitates timber trafficking and the mingling of legal and illegal supply chains.

Quick guides (22)

Brief introductions to crucial topics on preventing and combating corruption and improving standards of governance

Analysing a suspect’s financial affairs in a corruption case

How to use Source and Application of Funds analysis to inform corruption and money laundering investigations and prosecutions and to generate evidence for use in court.

Strategic anti-corruption guidelines for development agencies

In this quick guide, Claudia Baez Camargo, Head of the Basel Institute’s Public Governance team, explains the purpose, focus and value of strategic anti-corruption guidelines for development agencies…

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Financial investigations and asset recovery

This quick guide explores the main ideas and trends in financial investigation in the context of financial crime and asset recovery cases.

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Offshore structures and beneficial ownership

This quick guide looks at how criminals manipulate and misuse corporate vehicles in offshore jurisdictions to launder money. It focuses on the meaning of "corporate vehicle" and "offshore" and oth…

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Mobile money and financial crime

Should we be worried about the use of mobile money for financial crimes? In this quick guide, Andrew Dornbierer explains how mobile money could be abused for corruption and money laundering. Drawing …

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Open-source intelligence

Intelligence Analyst Manuel Medina explains what open-source intelligence is and explores some of the tricky questions it raises.

Online training (7)

Instructor-led training programmes delivered virtually to anti-corruption institutions or open to public registration