The OSCE Polish Chairpersonship and the Office of the Coordinator of the OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities are holding a series of three webinars on the contribution of the OSCE in preventing corruption and promoting transparency and good governance as part of resilient economic recovery.
The first webinar is entitled: Innovations in Asset Recovery in the OSCE: The Concept of Social Reuse was held today November 2, 2022, 3:00 to 4:15 pm CET via Zoom webinar.
Opening remarks
Ms. Courtney Austrian, Deputy Chief of Mission, United States Mission to the OSCE
Ambassador Igli Hasani, Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities
Ambassador Alena Kupchyna, OSCE Co-ordinator of Activities to Address Transnational Threats
Speakers:
Mr. Tristram Hicks, OSCE Asset Recovery Advisor
Mr. Andrea D’Angelo, Senior Project Manager, Balkan Asset Management Interagency Network (BAMIN) Secretariat
Ms. Melika Sahinovic, OSCE Expert on Social Re-Use in BiH
Moderator: Prof. Anita Ramasastry, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairmanship on Combating Corruption
Asset recovery is a powerful anti-corruption tool ensuring that stolen assets and proceeds of criminal activities are given back to societies and victims of crime. It remains one of the most effective ways to disrupt serious and organized crime as organized crime groups survive and thrive through illicit financial gains.
Since 2019, OSCE has been implementing a cross-dimensional project that aims at building the capacities of national authorities and civil society organizations (CSOs) in Southeast Europe and improving regional collaboration in the seizing, confiscating, managing and re-using of criminal assets. Phase II of the project that has just been launched has also been extended to Eastern Europe (Moldova and Ukraine). The project adopts a comprehensive approach to asset recovery and includes three areas of intervention: i) financial investigations, asset seizure and confiscation; ii) asset management; and iii) asset re-use.
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