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Asset Recovery Handbook : A Guide
 for PractitionersThe handbook is organized into nine
 chapters, a glossary, and ten appendixes of additional
 resources. Chapter one provides a general overview of the
 asset recovery process and legal avenues for recovery, along
 with practical case examples. Chapter two presents a host of
 strategic considerations for developing and managing an
 asset recovery case, including gathering initial sources of
 facts and information, assembling a team, and establishing a
 relationship with foreign counterparts for international
 cooperation. Chapter three introduces the techniques that
 practitioners may use to trace assets and analyze financial
 data, as well as to secure reliable and admissible evidence
 for asset confiscation cases. The provisional measures and
 planning necessary to secure the assets prior to
 confiscation are discussed in chapter four; and chapter five
 introduces some of the management issues that practitioners
 will need to consider during this phase. Confiscation
 systems are the focus of chapter six, including a review of
 the different systems and how they operate and the
 procedural enhancements that are available in some
 jurisdictions. On the issue of international cooperation,
 chapter seven reviews the various methods available,
 including informal assistance and mutual legal assistance
 requests; and guides practitioners through the entire
 process. Finally, chapters eight and nine discuss two
 additional avenues for asset recovery-respectively, civil
 proceedings and domestic confiscation proceedings undertaken
 in foreign jurisdictions.
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Asset Recovery Handbook : A Guide for PractitionersThe handbook is organized into nine chapters, a glossary, and ten appendixes of additional resources. Chapter one provides a general overview of the asset recovery process and legal avenues for recovery, along with practical case examples. Chapter two presents a host of strategic considerations for developing and managing an asset recovery case, including gathering initial sources of facts and information, assembling a team, and establishing a relationship with foreign counterparts for international cooperation. Chapter three introduces the techniques that practitioners may use to trace assets and analyze financial data, as well as to secure reliable and admissible evidence for asset confiscation cases. The provisional measures and planning necessary to secure the assets prior to confiscation are discussed in chapter four; and chapter five introduces some of the management issues that practitioners will need to consider during this phase. Confiscation systems are the focus of chapter six, including a review of the different systems and how they operate and the procedural enhancements that are available in some jurisdictions. On the issue of international cooperation, chapter seven reviews the various methods available, including informal assistance and mutual legal assistance requests; and guides practitioners through the entire process. Finally, chapters eight and nine discuss two additional avenues for asset recovery-respectively, civil proceedings and domestic confiscation proceedings undertaken in foreign jurisdictions.
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Barriers to Asset Recovery : An Analysis of the Key Barriers and Recommendations for ActionTheft of public assets from developing countries is an immense problem with a staggering development impact. These thefts diverts valuable public resources from addressing the abject poverty and fragile infrastructure often present in such countries. Although the exact magnitude of the proceeds of corruption circulating in the global economy is impossible to ascertain, estimates demonstrate the severity and scale of the problem at $20 to $40 billion lost to developing countries each year. What this estimate does not capture are the societal costs of corruption and the devastating impact of such crimes on victim countries. Theft of assets by corrupt officials, often at the highest levels of government, weakens confidence in public institutions, damages the private investment climate, and divests needed funding available for core investment in such poverty alleviation measures as public health, education, and infrastructure. This study's key objective is to mobilize policy makers on the existing difficulties in stolen asset recovery actions and convince them to take action on the featured recommendations. Such action will enhance the capacity of practitioners to successfully recover stolen assets.