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Executive & Specialist Programmes

Illicit Financial Flows and Asset Recovery

More than fifty billion dollars is estimated to leave Africa each year, and it leaves in plain sight through ordinary commercial records. We teach officials to see it, interrupt it and bring it back.

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Programme overview

More than fifty billion dollars is estimated to leave Africa each year, and it leaves in plain sight through ordinary commercial records. We teach officials to see it, interrupt it and bring it back.

This specialised subject can be taken as a one-day working lab, three-day workshop, two-week specialised training, or curated institutional programme within published open windows.

Who should attend

Revenue and customs, financial intelligence units, prosecutors, anti-corruption and asset recovery agencies, immigration and border services.

Programme modules

Module spine

  1. 01

    Measuring the flow: estimation methods, national risk assessment, and what the figures can and cannot bear

  2. 02

    Trade-based laundering: misinvoicing, customs valuation and mispricing in commodity and mineral chains

  3. 03

    Piercing the corporate veil: nominees, trusts, professional enablers and beneficial ownership

  4. 04

    Financial investigation across borders: intelligence, tracing and building an evidential chain

  5. 05

    Freezing, forfeiture and repatriation: non-conviction-based routes and the negotiation of return

  6. 06

    Capstone: a national counter-flows strategy with its inter-agency architecture and enforcement priorities

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