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NACP - IAP Network for Anti-Corruption, Money-laundering and Asset Recovery expands

11/15/2016


The IAP Network for Anti-corruption, money-laundering and asset recovery (NACP) made the IAP conference in Dublin an important milestone. Apart from hosting an very well-visited special meeting, the network experienced an expansion of more than 60 persons and the new governing board for the network came together for the first time to give directions for the future work within the network.

Setting the stage for an engaged discussion, the NACP hosted a special meeting giving particular focus to the prosecutorial issues related to asset recovery and anti-corruption investigation. Furthermore, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, Scotland presented a report on comparative asset recovery mechanisms. The survey report concludes a two year project to collect best practices on the matter.

 

First NACP Governing Board Meeting

For the first time, the governing board of the NACP came together to give direction for work agenda 2017.

 

The board brought together:

Mr. Kamran Aliyev, Deputy Prosecutor General, Director of the Anti-Corruption Directorate with the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Mr. Michael Lauber, Attorney General, Switzerland

Mr. David Green, Director, Serious Fraud Office, for England, Wales and Northern Ireland

Ms. Julie Read, Chief Executive Director, Serious Fraud Office, New Zealand

Dr. Al Marri, Attorney General, Qatar

Dr. Pablo Sanchez, Prosecutor General, Peru

Mr. Christopher Conroy, Chief, Major Economic Crimes Bureau, Manhatten District’s Attorney’s Office

Ms. Amie Ely, Director, NAGTRI Center for Ethics and Public Integrity

Dr. Rasmus H. Wandall, General Counsel, IAP (representing the IAP offices)

 

The goal of the meeting was to constitute the board and to discuss a possible work agenda for the coming year 2017. Central outcomes include:

  • Focus on building global reliable network of contact points with prosecution services. The networks should not duplicate existing and emerging regional networks, which for many reasons operate effectively. Productive relationships to these networks should be established.
  • The goal of the IAP is to have completed 50 % of this goal by September 2017 (see IAP Professional Goals 2016-2018). Furthermore, the NACP will work to establish relationships with regional asset recovery and anti-corruption networks.
  • The NACP will lobby for distributing best practices and actual operational needs of prosecutors into the work of international organizations in general and into international manuals, handbooks and other publications.
  • Pursue possible partnerships towards ensuring specialized learning programmes for prosecutors within financial crime.
  • The IAP NACP will work to present a proposal for a learning programme in relevant partnership agreements.

Interested members are welcome to contact gc@iap-association.org for further information.